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To: marktwain
It has nothing to do with testicular fortitude and everything to do with media.

I didn't have to read beyond this statement to know the rest was crap, but I read it anyway so here goes: Your own argument contradicts itself.

You hourself pointed out Weiner a Democrat was brought down in a twitter scandal, and that Dick Lugar, an old-guard republican wasn't safe appeasing the media.

If Boehner and the Republican's had the balls, they'd go full bore after Holder. Using your own argument and logic, no Democrat or Republican is safe so why wouldn't they turn on Holder? Hell, they're already starting to turn on Obama as recent published stories indicate.

But as I said, Boehner lacks the testicular fortitude (BALLS) to do it. That makes him a spineless COWARD in my book, and time for the Tea Party to show him the door too.

52 posted on 06/15/2012 5:23:33 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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usconservative posted:

"You hourself pointed out Weiner a Democrat was brought down in a twitter scandal, and that Dick Lugar, an old-guard republican wasn't safe appeasing the media.

If Boehner and the Republican’s had the balls, they'd go full bore after Holder. Using your own argument and logic, no Democrat or Republican is safe so why wouldn't they turn on Holder? Hell, they're already starting to turn on Obama as recent published stories indicate.

But as I said, Boehner lacks the testicular fortitude (BALLS) to do it. That makes him a spineless COWARD in my book, and time for the Tea Party to show him the door too."

marktwain replies:

I was demonstrating that the new media is gaining power, and the old media is losing power. This hardly means that the old guard Republicans understand it and have digested it, after decades of the MSM having dominance with almost no conservative media.

They may well turn on Holder, if they see the MSM turning on him by publishing more anti-Holder stories. The fact is, non of Fast and Furious would ever have come to light without the new media. The new media is what allows the Tea Party to organize and to thrive.

I agree that we would be better off with a new generation of Tea Party Republican than Boehner. One with less baggage would be less subject to MSM pressure, and less in the habit of bowing to it.

Do you think that the Democrats showed testicular fortitude by going after Nixon in Watergate? By that time they knew there was no downside for them in the MSM, and the Republicans knew that to go against the MSM was near suicidal.

53 posted on 06/15/2012 6:12:32 PM PDT by marktwain
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