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Tea-Party Activists Complicate Republican Comeback Strategy
The Wall Street Journal ^ | October 16, 2009 | Naftali Bendavid

Posted on 10/16/2009 8:44:40 AM PDT by sbpublicaffairs

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1 posted on 10/16/2009 8:44:41 AM PDT by sbpublicaffairs
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To: sbpublicaffairs

This is a good thing


2 posted on 10/16/2009 8:45:31 AM PDT by italianquaker (“Every inch of this Administration is rife with corruption and cronyism.” --- Michelle Malkin)
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To: sbpublicaffairs

GO Tea Party Patriots!!!


3 posted on 10/16/2009 8:46:34 AM PDT by paulycy (Why pay HIGHER TAXES for WORSE healthcare?)
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To: sbpublicaffairs

Don’t count your votes until they are cast GOP, you got to earn them.


4 posted on 10/16/2009 8:46:39 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Note to the GOP: Do not count your votes until they are cast.)
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To: italianquaker

It’s good to prove to the RINOs that they are useless.


5 posted on 10/16/2009 8:47:14 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: sbpublicaffairs

Step aside, RINOs.


6 posted on 10/16/2009 8:48:28 AM PDT by Lexington Green (Racist? When you call me that... smile.)
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To: sbpublicaffairs

Let us choose our own candidates and lock those votes in.


7 posted on 10/16/2009 8:49:02 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: sbpublicaffairs
Please, send Hoffman a donation. I wish we would get behind him as strongly as we got behind Joe Wilson last month.

Markos Moulitsas, founder of The Daily Kos has endorsed Scozzafava. Dede Scozzafava has also been endorsed by NYSUT, the largest labor union in New York, and an affiliate of the National Education Association.

Scozzafava also holds these positions:

Scozzafava has also run in past elections on the Working Families Party (a progressive party associated with ACORN) line on the ballot.

This lady isn’t a RINO, she is a big “R” democRat.

There are also 17 RINOs in the house who have donated funds to this Liberal democRat's campaign. They include Boehner and Cantor. I don’t have a full list, but I will be looking for it. These RINOs should be targeted for elimination in the primaries next year.

By the way, this article was posted earlier at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363538/posts and http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363665/posts.


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8 posted on 10/16/2009 8:49:11 AM PDT by cc2k (I have donated to Doug Hoffman, have you? [check my recent reply posts])
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To: sbpublicaffairs

The GOP is out of luck with me for quite a while yet - I won’t vote for a RINO just to win. Not going to do it again - its on them.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. - Theodore Roosevelt


9 posted on 10/16/2009 8:49:18 AM PDT by Patrsup (To stubborn to change now)
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PLAGIARIZING MYSELF FROM PREVIOUSLY:

Well, if “O” and his crew want to successfully drive a wedge in the GOP they will so far polarize Americans that they’ll line them ALL up behind the MOST viable Presidential contender…. irrespective of the kind of stigma (by now comical) typically associated with third parties or gender! Like Nietche said: “If something is falling, give it a shove”.

But, “O” has pushed too, hard too fast. If he can’t bring us together SOMEHOW, (I don’t think he’s capable) he is weakening his own position.

“O” has overspent his ‘class/race schism’ dividend and only succeeded in neutering the GOP. Conservatism still lives, and will find its voice (if it hasn’t already) in time to hand him a REAL race the next time he runs for President.

The opposition to “O” is so widespread and unvarying that for once I think, a third party has a shot. After all, traditional GOP candidates have been less than stellar lately and likely to remain so long enough for Palin to succeed.

She’s connected to the population in a way no others are or have been for a long time and she is articulate. She’s the horse to beat and no GOP hopeful I can think of is doing that.

People forget… the DNC changed drastically by making “O” its nominee! BUT, the GOP both during the campaign and since, has undergone equally drastic, telling and I believe permanent change.

If the last Presidential election was a revolution, the next one will positively vulcanize this country. EVERYONE needs to LET GO of the OLD ways of thinking and getting things done, politically….EVERYONE!!!!

If the GOP wants to be dragged kicking and screaming into the next couple decades, it will render itself even more useless and irrelevant. PALIN is the future of the GOP unless and until someone can talk straighter and rally people more uniformly. I am waiting.


10 posted on 10/16/2009 8:50:30 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
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Steele, et al, MUST close the primaries in EVERY state!


11 posted on 10/16/2009 8:51:44 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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To: Paladin2

We would be better off losing this seat now and win it back in 2010 to send a message


12 posted on 10/16/2009 8:54:19 AM PDT by italianquaker (“Every inch of this Administration is rife with corruption and cronyism.” --- Michelle Malkin)
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"He's conservative, and not a lawyer."

Well that's a good start.

13 posted on 10/16/2009 8:54:48 AM PDT by rednesss (fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power)
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To: sbpublicaffairs

Interesting. I’ve always been a critic of third party conservative campaigns as they usually result in a Democrat in office. I wonder if either the Republican or Conservative candidate (depending on which one is polling third) would be willing to drop out down the road if it looks like that history will repeat itself.


14 posted on 10/16/2009 8:56:21 AM PDT by DangerZone (RINOs rather lose with a liberal candidate than win with a conservative one.)
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When Democrats were in the minority, they turned more pragmatic in their choice of candidates starting in 2006, and were rewarded with two election victories.

Translation: When they ran as conservatives, they won.

15 posted on 10/16/2009 8:56:23 AM PDT by fortunate sun (Fight the marxist occupation of America. Support the Healthcare Insurrection.)
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The ultimate goal is to take back the party by rendering these RINOS irrelevant. Definitely a goal worth fighting for.


16 posted on 10/16/2009 8:57:15 AM PDT by cblue55
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To: sbpublicaffairs
Tea-Party Activists Complicate Republican Comeback Strategy

I don't agree at all and I hope Freepers here aren't taking the bait.

Tea party activities are the only thing that can reinvigorate the Republican party and it could be done with conservate ideas.

17 posted on 10/16/2009 8:59:15 AM PDT by FreeReign
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The ultimate goal is to take back the party by rendering these RINOS irrelevant. Definitely a goal worth fighting for.

Righty-O!

18 posted on 10/16/2009 9:01:00 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: sbpublicaffairs

A corrupt Republican politician is no better than a corrupt Democratic (socialist) Party of America politician. That is not complicated at all - get rid of RINOs or we all lose.


19 posted on 10/16/2009 9:02:23 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Steele, et al, MUST close the primaries in EVERY state!

It's not as clear cut as you might think.

State primaries are subject to state laws....(even though their was a recent SC ruling about Freedom of Association on the matter).

20 posted on 10/16/2009 9:03:43 AM PDT by FreeReign
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