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Gingrich: RNC Ad is 'Destructive Distraction'
Atlantic Magazine ^ | 16 Dec 2008 02:07 pm | Marc Ambinder

Posted on 12/16/2008 4:15:40 PM PST by lewisglad

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To: KingSnorky

Wow, one mistake and you hate the man for life.

Did you know that Reagan was once a Democrat? Does that one mistake make you now hate the man?


141 posted on 12/16/2008 7:30:04 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: gogogodzilla

you still have to follow the constitution.


142 posted on 12/16/2008 7:30:52 PM PST by ari-freedom (Conservatives solve problems. Libertarians ignore problems. Liberals create problems.)
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To: lewisglad

The washed up Gingrich refuses to fade away....
The least he could do is stfu.


143 posted on 12/16/2008 7:31:26 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

And? Attacking RINOs is also attacking the RNC as well, you know.


144 posted on 12/16/2008 7:33:22 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: Renegade
Newt has a peculiar desire to merge with the 'rats no matter how venal they promise to be. I interpret it as an infantile wish for the reunification of the family with mom and dad back together and at home.
145 posted on 12/16/2008 7:34:49 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: gogogodzilla
Yep, and your response tells me you think that 60 million Americans don't deserve the right to vote. Seems like Americans are only smart when they vote your way. Tells me a lot about you, too... Sparky.

That may be one of the most ridiculous statements I've ever seen posted on FR.

Where do I support disenfranchisement? People have every right to be morons.

And if you think Obama voters were smart, well, that tells me that you voted for the Messiah and that you think the average requirement for a driver's license needn't be applied to the highest office in the land.

You're one of those Manchurian Freepers who've come out of the woodwork in the past year. Good luck, quisling. You've chosen the dark side.

146 posted on 12/16/2008 7:36:08 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: zeebee

No, he’s actually asking us to keep our powder dry. Wait for an opportune time, like a major screw-up (we shouldn’t have long to wait, right?)... and then open fire.

Wasting our political ammunition on side-issues only makes us look foolish. Kinda like the boy who cried wolf. If we cry wolf too often, the public won’t pay attention when it really matters.


147 posted on 12/16/2008 7:38:12 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: gogogodzilla
If we cry wolf too often, the public won’t pay attention when it really matters.

Seemed to work for Pelosi and the Kenyan over the past two years.

148 posted on 12/16/2008 7:40:46 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: andy58-in-nh

Andy, always enjoy a discussion with you. I remember the 1970s too, and I desperately hope that once again, Jimmy Carter leads to Ronald Reagan.

My fear is that, apart from leisure suits and disco, the 1970s had a different breed of Americans, a subset of which were the Reagan Democrats.

Today’s Dems are all lefties.

It used to be that whether GOP or Dem, there was love of country. Now, it is obvious that it is producers and takers, and the takers are in the majority. American exceptionality is a myth today to Democrats. They have embraced the dark side, and while nominally involved in some religions, their actions show that humanism has replaced any semblance of God in their political view.

Another Civil War is not out of the question. There is too much of the 1850s beginning to percolate. Soon, we may have to choose liberty or life.

The Dems began to show their hatred of America during Vietnam, but it really surfaced during Reagan. During Clinton and Bush, it has become an epidemic disease.

I pray not a fatal one, but Obama inspires a lawlessness that I have never seen before, even during Clinton, especially in the midst of the really incompetent, American hating Congressional leadership of Reid and Pelosi. Obama telegraphs everything, but only those perceptive enough to understand understand clearly.

Something evil this way comes.


149 posted on 12/16/2008 7:40:50 PM PST by exit82 (It's all Obama's fault. And Biden is still a moron. They are both above their paygrade.)
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To: buccaneer81
I think the American public is smart enough to know right from wrong... and do what is in their best interest.

You obviously don't, comrade.

(Looks like some of the proletariat are more red than others, right?)

150 posted on 12/16/2008 7:42:44 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: buccaneer81

Another RINO alert.

Man, no WONDER why we lost. We deserved to.


151 posted on 12/16/2008 7:43:19 PM PST by deannadurbin
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To: gogogodzilla

And you’re at Fort Meade? Makes me wonder about the NSA.


152 posted on 12/16/2008 7:44:04 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: exit82

The Reagan Democrats are now lying in cemetaries in Queens, suburban Chicago, and Macomb County, MI.


153 posted on 12/16/2008 7:44:56 PM PST by Clemenza (Red is the Color of Virility, Blue is the Color of Impotence)
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To: Bunkasaurus
I think Gingrich is right.

I needed to get to the 20th post before I found someone saying what I am thinking; Newt is right. We do need to confront bad ideas by offering up conservative solutions. We won in 1994 by being the party of ideas. That is the message we need to put out. The anger and hatred is not a winning approach. I am a Happy Warrior and I love to enter the arena of debate, not stand on the sidelines and name call.

154 posted on 12/16/2008 7:45:39 PM PST by Zevonismymuse
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To: gogogodzilla
I think the American public is smart enough to know right from wrong... and do what is in their best interest. You obviously don't, comrade. (Looks like some of the proletariat are more red than others, right?)

So you approve of Obama being elected. Tells me all I need to know.

155 posted on 12/16/2008 7:46:16 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Zevonismymuse

Warren penned “The Hockey Song.” Hit someone! That should be what we do to the dark side.


156 posted on 12/16/2008 7:48:12 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: penelopesire
No...the only person that wasn’t engaged in real substance issue attacks was McCain and he was rejected.

McCain was not rejected for failing to use attack ads. McCain was rejected because he did not offer conservative solutions. His behavior during the bail-out was a perfect example. He had nothing to add to the discussion and simply signed on to the idea that we should reward the people behaving badly and punish the people who kept their agreements.

157 posted on 12/16/2008 7:49:11 PM PST by Zevonismymuse
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To: buccaneer81

Did it work for the previous 6 years before that?

Only when Congress ignored the increase in oil/food prices, the weaking of the US dollar, and instead brought us the immigration fiasco... did we see a change.

Imagine that.


158 posted on 12/16/2008 7:49:27 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: lewisglad

Sorry Newt... I’m now off YOUR bandwagon too! Looking for a new party!


159 posted on 12/16/2008 7:52:19 PM PST by pollywog (I will lift mine eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help. My help comes from the Lord...Ps 121)
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To: buccaneer81

???

Stop projecting, here.

“I think the American public is smart enough to know right from wrong... and do what is in their best interest.”

That brought us Reagan and also the Republican takeover of Congress in the 1990’s. It also gave us Bush I and Bush II.

The fact that you can’t even realize that also ‘tells me all I need to know’.


160 posted on 12/16/2008 7:53:23 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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