Posted on 09/15/2015 3:27:08 AM PDT by cotton1706
When conservatives held a Washington, D.C., rally last week in opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran, which names do you suppose inspired the loudest boos from the crowd? Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and John Kerry would be good guesses. So would Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But none of those are the right answer.
Instead, it was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner, the two most important Republican leaders in Washington, who seemed to get the loudest boos. When Dave Brat, who won his Virginia congressional seat by beating then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a GOP primary last year, mentioned the pair, the conservative crowd erupted in a thunder of boos.
Judging from these roars of disapproval, there's a segment of the conservative base that dislikes top Republican congressional leaders as much as they dislike the most liberal members of the Obama administration — or even the mullahs and ayatollahs in Iran.
No matter how well attended, one rally isn't necessarily representative of broader conservative sentiment. But there are plenty of other data points. A Pew poll from earlier this year found the Republican Party's popularity waning. The decline was especially sharp among Republicans themselves.
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They may have hit rock bottom, but they’re still digging.
That’s an easy one - they became democrats.
good one :)
The problem is the lamestream press convinces most people that conservatives are loonies, so at least elect a Moderate repub if one at all.
How about we go back to when we controlled the house the senate and the oval office and they failed to bludgeon the democrats like the communist filth that they are?
“My good friend Harry Reid.”
“My dear friend Ted Kennedy.”
They make my wanna puke.
They seem hell-bent on hitting a magma chamber.
Wrong.
Isn't that redundant?
But "our" guys lie and lie and lie about being conservatives, wanting to "stop Obamacare," etc. it is the deep sense of betrayal that so outrages us, and it isn't just one or two but almost all (Corker passed 99-1, with Cruz, Paul, Rubio, Ernst, Portman, and a dozen others put in by the Tea Party to stop Zero voting for it).
The fact that they seemingly don’t care is very telling. They are part of the #uniparty.
The republican party has destroyed themselves. My wife and I used to be supporters of the republicans by no longer. We get frequent calls and letters asking for our financial support towards various republican candidates. When those calls arrive we immediately refuse to offer any further financial support and tell the caller in no misleading terms, “NO” means no. We advise them that when the republicans turned into democrats, we abandoned them and withdrew all financial support. Simply, they do not deserve it.
Good one!
And yet Democrats, whether in the majority or minority, always seem to get what they want.
-PJ
We feel the same way.
They are NOT at rock bottom.
They are COMPLICIT with the murder of Americans
and the US Constitution. They will be at
rock bottom only when they are indicted for Treason.
They will be at rock bottom when they are hanged for Treason.
Hillary may not say she’s a socialist, but she has essentially admitted to being a progressive, which is worse.
That certainly has a familiar ring to it.
The jerks are still calling and e-mailing me, and their mailings are apparently eternal. I don't bother answering or otherwise acknowledging any of it anymore, knowing they aren't even up to the simple task of removing me from their list(s). They suck… and anyone who thinks that Donald Trump is somehow responsible for them sucking really isn't going to have any insights on WHY they suck.
Mr. niteowl77
“a segment of the conservative base...”
Yeah, like all of it
Apparently, they are so dumb they never learned the first rule of holes
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