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The question after the election disaster of 2008 will be, which betrayal did in the GOP?
May 17, 2007 | Jim Robinson

Posted on 05/17/2007 3:07:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

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To: Jim Robinson

Failure to secure the borders.
Amnesty.

Those two right there cost the GOP in 2006 and will burn the rest of the GOP out in 2008.


161 posted on 05/17/2007 4:09:32 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Killing all of your enemies without mercy is the only sure way of sleeping soundly at night.)
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To: pissant
"The solution:"(Then pictures the next President of the USA... Duncan Hunter, considerate conservative)

A picture of THE TRUTH!!!

162 posted on 05/17/2007 4:11:17 PM PDT by SierraWasp (CA!!! Are you ready to rumble *??? Or are ya just gonna mumble and grumble??? (*aka "Recall"))
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To: jakewashere

I just think he’s politically naive (still!), obsessed with being nice and civil — and was never, nor did he really claim to be, that conservative.


163 posted on 05/17/2007 4:11:20 PM PDT by California Patriot ("That's not Charley the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
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To: Jim Robinson

IMHO....all the above....


164 posted on 05/17/2007 4:12:33 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("Grow your own DOPE, plant a LIB""Fred Thompson/Duncan Hunter 08")
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To: Jim Robinson

19 sounds about right.


165 posted on 05/17/2007 4:12:36 PM PDT by Prince Charles
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To: Jim Robinson

Most conservatives are Republicans; unfortunately, most Republicans aren’t conservatives.


166 posted on 05/17/2007 4:13:03 PM PDT by umgud ("When seconds count, the police are just 10 minutes away!")
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To: rface
The failure to treat the threat of Radical Islam is the number one issue to address.

Failure? We haven't been hit since 9/11. That's gotta be good for something.

167 posted on 05/17/2007 4:13:39 PM PDT by jdm
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To: skeeter
So they shoulda gone to the polls & voted for who? Lindsey Graham? Arlen Spectre? George flippin Bush?

Any of them are imminently preferable to Speaker Pelosi and Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid.

I do not subscribe to the "throw them all out, it can't get any worse" attitude. That, and the negativity that accompanies it, brought us Ross Perot, and Bill Clinton for two terms. This brought us even more empowered Islamic radicals, with whom we've had to deal since.

168 posted on 05/17/2007 4:13:41 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Jim Robinson

I still don’t understand why the Republicans catch so much flack for the error of their ways but the Dems get a pass. Why do we punish our people and put in Dems who are far far worse?


169 posted on 05/17/2007 4:14:27 PM PDT by beckysueb
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To: Strategerist
"The vast majority of people cast their presidential votes because of vague emotional feelings towards the candidate, not because of specific bills."

Perhaps.

So tell me then, do you think that, say, McCain can win despite his shameless flacking for open borders and amnesty for illegal alien lawbreakers? In other words, that your "vast majority" will simply ignore that outrage and vote for him due to their favorable but "vague emotional feelings" toward him?

170 posted on 05/17/2007 4:15:31 PM PDT by Czar ( StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: Jim Robinson

Quick answer? All of the above. I’m not giving up, though. I have faith and hope in Hunter and Thompson.


171 posted on 05/17/2007 4:15:33 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Jim, good question, but I think the game is rigged. I used to laugh at people who said there's not a dime's worth of difference in the parties. Well...the only difference I can see since Reagan, with the exception of the mid-90's House, is who gets the spoils of victory.

The bi-factional ruling party just alternates their reigns to keep supporters paid off and paying off. And they will commit the betrayal--and in many cases, such as today, deliberate treason--to maintain their elite status.

172 posted on 05/17/2007 4:15:57 PM PDT by jammer
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To: Enterprise

So the folks are going to vote in people who are worse? Why?


173 posted on 05/17/2007 4:16:31 PM PDT by beckysueb
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To: tgslTakoma

The biggest problem I see with the negativity represented here is that even good Repubs. get caught in the crossfire, and the entire country suffers.


174 posted on 05/17/2007 4:16:34 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: pissant

Here’s hopin’ and prayin’.


175 posted on 05/17/2007 4:16:35 PM PDT by Czar ( StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: SuziQ
I just said this before, and now I'll repeat it: There is no longer any qualitative difference. No matter which of the two major parties I vote for in the next election, I am never going to get what I, as a conservative, actually want. The Democrats are openly and honestly opposed to everything I stand for; at this point, I would prefer voting for them to voting for another G.O.P.-tard who tells me what I want to hear without the slightest intention of actually backing up all his fine words.
176 posted on 05/17/2007 4:17:19 PM PDT by jakewashere (politically incorrect and proud of it since 1982)
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To: SierraWasp

How nice of you to think of me.


177 posted on 05/17/2007 4:17:34 PM PDT by GVnana (Former Alias: GVgirl)
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To: Jim Robinson

I think you nailed it. The public opinion war. Our people are such wimps.


178 posted on 05/17/2007 4:17:42 PM PDT by beckysueb
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To: pissant; Jim Robinson
We are going to win this 2008 election, Jim.

Gotta' disagree, pissant. It's the dems' turn for 8 years at the spoils. Whoever we nominate will be Bob Dolesque cannon fodder. The Republicans will be back in 2016 (if the US is still here). They will be reincarnated as overt socialists, rather than covert socialists, but it will be their turn then.

179 posted on 05/17/2007 4:19:10 PM PDT by jammer
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To: beckysueb
So the folks are going to vote in people who are worse? Why?

Because the people who were slightly better weren't going to give us a single goddamn thing we wanted anyway, so what's the difference?

180 posted on 05/17/2007 4:19:10 PM PDT by jakewashere (politically incorrect and proud of it since 1982)
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