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It was a good week for the GOP. But it could have been great - Area 51 smear of conservatives
Washington Post ^ | 3-25-17 | Hugh Hewitt

Posted on 03/30/2017 8:55:21 AM PDT by ifinnegan

By Hugh Hewitt March 25

The pulling of the GOP health-care bill this week was a big loss, and perhaps significant beyond its own costs, as it may signal that the “Area 51” sub-caucus within the Freedom Caucus is made up not so much of conservative Republicans as parties of one with no interest in an agenda shared beyond whatever exists in the space between their own ears.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hewitt; rinos
This is from almost a week ago and wasn't posted.

This was an early salvo in the war on conservatives, equating those who opposed the Ryan Care bill with Area 51 believing crackpots.

I heard Hewitt using this term on a radio broadcast on his show of some TV panel he was on with Tom Brokaw and other liberals where he was calling them Area 51 caucus.

Hewitt is a point man in shaping the public message of the GOPe and telegraphic their strategy.

Republicans are now calling other Republicans looney tune crazies because they were against the health bill.

1 posted on 03/30/2017 8:55:21 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: ifinnegan
Enough with the "end is near" hysteria. President Trump still has 3 years and 10 months left in his first term.

Sheesh.

2 posted on 03/30/2017 8:57:00 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

What are you talking about?


3 posted on 03/30/2017 8:58:48 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

Always remember that Hewitt has been a Cheap Labor Express Republican for a very long time. His ideal President would have been Romney.


4 posted on 03/30/2017 9:01:40 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ifinnegan
What are you talking about?

The pulling of the GOP health-care bill this week was a big loss, and perhaps significant beyond its own costs,

Sorry. I should have pointed out that you had to read deep into the first sentence to find this doomsday gem.

5 posted on 03/30/2017 9:01:43 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Hewitt always defends the Establishment. How many times did he say Trump couldn’t win?


6 posted on 03/30/2017 9:04:58 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: Texas Eagle

Ok. You were responding to Hewitt’s op-Ed.

It seemed you were complaining about pointing out Hewitt’s idiocy. It wasn’t clear.


7 posted on 03/30/2017 9:05:42 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

Ah. A simple misunderstanding.


8 posted on 03/30/2017 9:08:27 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: ifinnegan

HuGH Hewitt (Hearted) aRnie.. nuff said.


9 posted on 03/30/2017 9:15:38 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: generalissimoduane

Does Hugh really think that people who love liberty are wackos?


10 posted on 03/30/2017 9:37:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: generalissimoduane

Does Hugh really think that people who love liberty are wackos?


11 posted on 03/30/2017 9:37:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ifinnegan

Eventually, Trump (and we supporters) are going to figure out that Trump is going to get the business so hard that he will not be able to “execute”.

The media, the Republican Party, the Democrat Party, every institution in the Intelligence Community, the Judicial Branch have no interest in seeing Trump function.

Trump is to be tied up in the courts on his Executive Orders, and as for Trump’s Campaign promises ever turning into Legislation, Ryan and McConnell can drive slow or ignore consideration for every Campaign promise Trump ever made.

At the moment it looks pretty scary for how he is even able to function, let alone succeed.


12 posted on 03/30/2017 10:23:57 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Acad emi are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“His ideal President would have been Romney.”

So much so that he wrote a book about it.


13 posted on 03/30/2017 11:07:11 AM PDT by Skepolitic
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