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Mark Shields: Republicans Saw Off the Atlantic Seaboard (hurl alert)
US Daily ^ | 5/2/09

Posted on 05/02/2009 2:33:13 PM PDT by lewisglad

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To: HapaxLegamenon

“And Dems sawed off the South a long time ago.”

Tell them that. Obama won in North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida.

North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Virginia are governed by Democrats.

They hold Senate seats in Louisiana, Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, and Arkansas. Both US Senate seats in Virgina and Arkansas, for that matter.

Even the Mountain West, which has traditionally been far more loyal to Republicans than has the South, is splintered.


21 posted on 05/02/2009 3:56:11 PM PDT by CaspersGh0sts
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To: lewisglad
Don't just take his word for it. Listen to this from a prominent national Republican: "You can walk from Canada to Mexico and from Maine to Arizona without ever leaving a state with a Democratic governor. ...

Tell the DA "prominent national republican" to take the long way and stay out of Indiana!

22 posted on 05/02/2009 3:58:17 PM PDT by sausageseller (http://coolblue.typepad.com/the_cool_blue_blog/)
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To: CaspersGh0sts

That’s because they are winning.


23 posted on 05/02/2009 4:10:34 PM PDT by central_va (www.15thVirginia.org Co. C, Patrick Henry Rifles)
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To: lewisglad

Now you know why Rush calls him Maxi Shields...


24 posted on 05/02/2009 5:34:58 PM PDT by lancer (It's near impossible to get a pig to cut his own throat...ask any Congressman.)
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To: CaspersGh0sts

You make my point. Election are cyclical.


25 posted on 05/02/2009 5:35:38 PM PDT by HapaxLegamenon
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To: SolidWood

“Most of America is right wing... they just don’t know it yet.”

The problem is the definition of right-wing...if you don’t get it “exactly right” too many stay home. Libertadrian’s and “strict constructionists,” depending on the subject, need not apply.


26 posted on 05/02/2009 5:48:55 PM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (Support the 10th. Ammendment and become a Neo-terrorist.)
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To: lewisglad
In 2009, 35 percent proclaim themselves Democrats, while Republican identification has slipped badly to 22 percent -- opening up a 13-point gap.

Bush II effect. Put a real conservative in and these numbers get flipped wholesale. A couple of years of Obama-stink and people will flock in droves toward someone like Sarah Palin.

First, you have to have a conservative, then, you can make comparisons that really matter. I'll take your popularity poll and raise you one genuine American.

I'll wager in five years you'll hear nothing of gay marriage, nor will you have a flaming faggot trashing Miss USA contestants. We'll have gone through whatever the pig flu throws at us by then and Obama's response will be on record. We'll have seen major corporations taken over by government and the ill created that will also be on Obama's ledger.

The Left's pendulum swing peaked with the Caramel Messiah. They've known all along that they only had a small window of opportunity to exploit and boy, are they exploiting it. It won't last and they know it.

27 posted on 05/02/2009 6:41:38 PM PDT by budwiesest (I calls it like I see it. FUBO)
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To: lewisglad

Income Tax =Socialism

The more income tax, the more redistribution, the more the Dems will use your money to buy their votes.


28 posted on 05/02/2009 7:19:56 PM PDT by plenipotentiary (Free the Oil, Topple the Saudis. Confiscate Putins money. Disconnect Siberia.)
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To: lewisglad

We haven’t sawed off the Northeast though Goldwater joked about doing so. The Northeast has severed itself from constitutional principles.


29 posted on 05/02/2009 8:01:25 PM PDT by Theodore R. (GWB is gone: Now the American sheeple can sleep at night!)
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To: A Strict Constructionist

No, “right-wing” terrifies the American people and has since the days of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was right on 90 percent of his charges. The people want these government programs, and even a conservative like Bob Taft supported socialized housing after World War II.


30 posted on 05/02/2009 8:03:23 PM PDT by Theodore R. (GWB is gone: Now the American sheeple can sleep at night!)
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To: Arguendo

You are correct, Louisiana has twice as many Republican U.S. representatives as New York State.


31 posted on 05/02/2009 8:05:12 PM PDT by Theodore R. (GWB is gone: Now the American sheeple can sleep at night!)
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To: sefarkas
Electing Republicans should result in legislation to lower taxes, eliminate burdensome laws and regulations, and defund agencies and endowments.

It should have the added bonus of forcing Obama to veto such legislation as well, gaining ammo for a (hopefully) conservative candidate for POTUS to use in an election bid.

32 posted on 05/03/2009 2:18:39 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Theodore R.

“No, “right-wing” terrifies the American people”

I was talking about the FR definition.


33 posted on 05/03/2009 8:16:37 AM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (Support the 10th. Ammendment and become a Neo-terrorist.)
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