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Can We Recalibrate? (Red State)
RedState ^ | August 14,2014 | By: Erick Erickson (Diary)

Posted on 08/14/2015 11:39:45 AM PDT by Hojczyk

I want to beat Hillary Clinton next year. I want to beat her with a Republican who is not just another party apparatchik surrounded by lower level party apparatchiks within the Republican Party.

But I know we cannot beat Hillary Clinton with this level of anger. We won’t be able to draw people to our side and our cause like this.

I get the anger. I do. I am angry at the betrayal and the repeated lies from Washington Republicans who say they love children, but won’t even defund Planned Parenthood.

I get the anger of voters who sent men and women to Washington to fight Obama only to give him a blank check and keep Obamacare funded.

But I don’t get this anger. If this is the anger that flows out of Trump supporters, I do not think it is sustainable. Yet it comes daily. It is poisonous to debate, to democracy, and to the soul itself.

Yes, Republican voters have been betrayed. But I do not think people who are angered at the present President demeaning the integrity of the Presidency will ultimately side with any candidate whose base of support generates rage and hate. I refuse to believe that the people angry at Washington and the GOP have let their anger consume them. But the people in these emails and so many like them have been consumed by anger.

Those of you who see it within the ranks of the candidate you support, and not just with Trump supporters, need to try to channel the anger and draw out the happy warriors.

Conservatives must be happy warriors. Those of faith already know they’re on the winning team and the issues are far larger than the day to day politics of this country.

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To: Hojczyk

Go hit Hillary’s Reset button EE.


21 posted on 08/14/2015 11:46:46 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: Hojczyk

Bite me, Erick!


22 posted on 08/14/2015 11:46:53 AM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Hojczyk

Note to Rush:

I will tune out next time EE is a guest host.


23 posted on 08/14/2015 11:48:23 AM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: Hojczyk

We are not angry anymore Erick......we are way past that, you like other RINOs would have known that if you had paid attention.

We are HAPPY to see the GOP get what is coming to them....we are very happy warriors!!

Oh, and BTW, thanks to all of the GOP press for showing your true colors AGAIN!


24 posted on 08/14/2015 11:48:28 AM PDT by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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To: Gaffer

Nice to have proof EE is on the compassionate conservative train. We’ve seen that movie before. It has a bad ending for conservatives.


25 posted on 08/14/2015 11:48:39 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Hojczyk

He bans Trump from his event thinking it will score him brownie points from the GOPe and it backfires badly. Now he wants us to be one big happy family.


26 posted on 08/14/2015 11:49:13 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: lodi90

I never have liked that name dropping opportunist weasel.


27 posted on 08/14/2015 11:49:29 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Hojczyk

He clearly does NOT get the anger.

He is advocating Münchhausen syndrome.

Trump is not the most conservative candidate - by some measures he is not all that conservative at all. But he is the one who is voicing the anger that has built up in the electorate. He is the one who is willing to say what millions are thinking.

I prefer other candidates at this point. But Trump is infinitely more supportable than a GOPe squish like Jeb.


28 posted on 08/14/2015 11:49:31 AM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Seems like a reasonable piece to me. Trump supporters are using SJW tactics right from the left wing playbook. I don’t mind trum as much as the schit that comes out of his supporters mouths any time someone is critical of him.


29 posted on 08/14/2015 11:49:57 AM PDT by wolfman23601
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To: Hojczyk
Conservatives must be happy warriors. Those of faith already know they’re on the winning team and the issues are far larger than the day to day politics of this country.

What kind of feel-good garbage is this nonsense? Happy warriors? We're on the winning team? Look around! No, we're not!

Conservatives are angry and pissed-off, as they have every right to be. And it's time to start fighting.

You can stuff that "happy warrior" crap. It's for losers.

30 posted on 08/14/2015 11:50:25 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Hojczyk
looks like Eric is trying to mend some fences...

How about apologize to Trump first ?

Then maybe !!! Not...

31 posted on 08/14/2015 11:50:26 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Hojczyk

Happy Warriors???


32 posted on 08/14/2015 11:50:43 AM PDT by Randy Larsen (Aim small, Miss small.)
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To: Hojczyk

No, Eric, you actually DON’T get it. And I’m not even in the Trump camp- I don’t know about this race yet, but I’m surely watching and listening.

One thing is certain- you’re like so many in the media today- you’re trying to be part of the story.


33 posted on 08/14/2015 11:51:47 AM PDT by SE Mom (Dear God, restore our beloved country, amen.)
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To: Randy Larsen

Has he been watching Barney the Dinosaur or something?


34 posted on 08/14/2015 11:51:57 AM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Hojczyk

Did I miss Erik’s apology for jumping to conclusions about what Trump said during the debate, then the knee-jerk reaction of uninviting him while playing knight-in-shining armor to Candy Kelly?

I admit that I just skimmed the article so I may have missed it.


35 posted on 08/14/2015 11:51:58 AM PDT by Nickname
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To: Hojczyk

What anger? Why do the pundits keep calling Trump supporters angry? I am simply at a place where I realize that the GOP simply does not share my goals regarding the economy, TPP fast track, Obamacare, the illegal immigrant flood, gay marriage, war fighting including when and HOW.

I am not angry, all my trust for the GOP is spent. Trump at least seems straightforward. Call that anger if you want. But I want the illegal immigration ended.

It really isn’t hard to understand.


36 posted on 08/14/2015 11:52:20 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I cannot tell him and Coulter apart anymore.


37 posted on 08/14/2015 11:52:24 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Hojczyk

*
“You’re stupid!” is this week’s continuing mantra for RedState.

He certainly has done a good job of avoiding controversy over demeaning Ben Carson.


38 posted on 08/14/2015 11:52:31 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Hojczyk

Wow, the posts on EE’s website are spot on. I would copy some here, but the language would get me banned.

He guessed way wrong on the feelings of Conservative Americans, and now he is complaining about the vitriol unleashed on him by those Conservatives for his own deeds.

I hope he got a nice fat bonus for knifing Trump in the back, cause he is nothing to Conservatives now, or for the foreseeable future. Perhaps he can join the now legal homeless on the streets of NYC.


39 posted on 08/14/2015 11:52:38 AM PDT by wrench
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To: Hojczyk

This level of anger is what is unifying a large part of the electorate,,of course a GOPe sympathizer would want to tamp it down.

EE is beyond disgusting imho


40 posted on 08/14/2015 11:53:03 AM PDT by austinaero
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