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The 2014 Midterms Prove We Can’t Trust 2016 Republicans
Black & Right ^ | 4/24/15 | Bob Parks

Posted on 04/24/2015 8:00:06 AM PDT by impetrio1

During the ramp-up to the 2014 midterm election, we were given many promises of what would be done if we would support Republican candidates and put them in the majority. We held our nose after primary shenanigans that favored some incumbents, poured donations into so-called Tea Party groups that blew off the candidates they supported. Some of us even believed the new-found conservatism some incumbents suddenly embraced in the weeks prior to November 4th.

And it didn’t take long after the midterm election for the Republicans to look at us all like chumps as they excused themselves from the promises made, and publicly punished those on the Hill who attempted to keep campaign positions and promises.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: midterm; president; republicans

1 posted on 04/24/2015 8:00:06 AM PDT by impetrio1
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To: impetrio1

After 50 years of liberal indoctrination through public schools and the media, I fear that there just aren’t enough of us left to reverse this spiral into communism.


2 posted on 04/24/2015 8:06:27 AM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: gorush

> After 50 years of liberal indoctrination through public schools and the media, I fear that there just aren’t enough of us left to reverse this spiral into communism.

Not to worry. History has proven Communism ends withthe vultures eating each other in the end. It takes a few years for the socialists to figure out the system was not designed to help them so much as their overlords when the coffers dry up. Then they turn on their own.


3 posted on 04/24/2015 8:10:21 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: impetrio1

Lately, I’ve begun to think that the crap Congress has pulled since the 2014 mid-terms has effectively torpedoed any chance of a Republican ascending to the Presidency in 2016, regardless of who the nominee is.

I’m done with the GOP on the national level—No more holding my nose.


4 posted on 04/24/2015 8:10:22 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: impetrio1

File under NSS.


5 posted on 04/24/2015 8:11:09 AM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: jsanders2001

Small comfort to those innocents that will be destroyed in the Progressive hell that is being created.


6 posted on 04/24/2015 8:21:04 AM PDT by PTBAA
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To: impetrio1

Alexander
Burr
Capito
Corker
Cornyn
Gardner
Hatch
Roberts
Rounds
Thune
Tillis
Cochran
Ayotte
Graham
Flake
Portman
Kirk
Johnson
Collins
McConnell
Hatch

Everyone should remember these names and primary them out. They are Democrats in R jerseys advancing the left’s agenda under the guise of being Republicans.

These Senators voted for cloture or to approve a nominee for Attorney General who testifed that federal laws are meaningless.


7 posted on 04/24/2015 8:21:15 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: impetrio1

The GOP is already as I and others predicted squandering their majority. They will likely lose it back in 2016. What is the motivation to vote for them if nothing changes? They are confirming lawless judges, doing nothing to rein in spending, considering raising taxes. We can let the Dems do that.


8 posted on 04/24/2015 8:27:29 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Arm_Bears

This.


9 posted on 04/24/2015 8:28:57 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: impetrio1

The GOP is as much of a menace as the democrats are, if not more so.


10 posted on 04/24/2015 8:29:17 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“Primary” the RINOs out.

And don’t forget to nominate solid conservatives who can push all those goose-stepping Democrats into “retirement”.


11 posted on 04/24/2015 8:29:21 AM PDT by pfony1 (Let's welcome some Democrat congressmen into the Republican party and OVERRIDE!)
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To: impetrio1

I wouldn’t be so down on the Tea Party.
The Elite Republican Leadership managed to hang on their positions and kept the Conservatives at bay.

The Elite Republican Leadership are no different than the Democraps. They managed to hoard the campaign money from the National Party and used it to defeat the Conservative Republican Candidates!

I would continue to support the Republican Party Candidates as long they hold the basic principles. Don’t donate to the National Republican Committee. Support the County Republican Party and directly to the candidates as long they uphold the principles.


12 posted on 04/24/2015 8:31:45 AM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound

The problem is that as soon as a Conservative or Tea Party member is elected, as soon as they arrive in DC, they turn coat on us. Im Done with that BS.


13 posted on 04/24/2015 8:37:52 AM PDT by davidb56
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To: Georgia Girl 2

“What is the motivation to vote for them if nothing changes?”
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Yes, that. Although it could be surmised that things HAVE changed...for the worse.


14 posted on 04/24/2015 8:40:39 AM PDT by Canedawg (In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.- George Orwell)
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To: impetrio1

After the revolution, both the Democrat and Republican parties need to be made illegal. Never allowed to organize again. They are both over 75 % corrupt. They should never ever be allowed to organize again after the revolution. Let freedom ring. Send tyranny to hell.


15 posted on 04/24/2015 8:43:26 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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16 posted on 04/24/2015 8:46:05 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: impetrio1

With every daily sell-out by the GOPe, it is looking more and more like our best strategy is to punt.

Let the Dems take it all in ‘16. Let the Chamber of Commerce feel the heat of the onerous tax and regulation environment under the Fake White Indian. Then let them come crawling back to us on their hands and knees, begging for forgiveness.


17 posted on 04/24/2015 8:47:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: impetrio1

Wrong and Right, GOPe Leadership did indeed turn against what they said in the Mid-term, many R Congressmen did not lie.
There are many good R’s, they fight the GOPe and the liberals everyday for our and a Free America’s well-being.


18 posted on 04/24/2015 9:13:01 AM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Yeah, I was going to say not all of them are slugs, but the ones that voted for this new AG in particular should be remembered by those who put them in there thinking there’d be a change.


19 posted on 04/24/2015 9:34:21 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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