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Rove, Romney and the GOP-e set out to destroy the tea party, and they are succeeding
July 14, 2012 | Jim Robinson

Posted on 07/14/2012 4:44:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

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To: SUSSA

Well, you are assuming GW Bush was not a conservative. In most aspects I beleive he was.
Limbaugh has always said you support the most conservative person running in the race.
GW Bush certainly was.
McCain maybe was, I guess you do not remember Limbaugh trashing McCain nearly daily.
Romney is not but is what is left, which is what Limbaugh has said, ‘we are stuck with him’.
He does suffer with ABO like so many others.
I think he tries everyday not to bash Romney, and sometimes he can’t hold back.
(His backing of Buchanan was just to tweak the media, it meant as much as when he endorsed Clinton).


121 posted on 07/14/2012 7:30:12 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: Cyber Ninja

The social issues take care of themselves when the tax rate is 9% of GDP (with a fully funded Military).

You have it backwards. Tax policy takes care of it’s self when you elect moral up-standing citizens. If you think this mess gets cleaned up by low character free traders we are doomed. People like that are spineless whimps like Boehner.


122 posted on 07/14/2012 7:33:11 PM PDT by Lets Roll NOW (A baby isn't a punishment, Obama is)
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To: CharacterCounts

So is Ronald Reagan a RINO? ...his appointments didnt work out too great


123 posted on 07/14/2012 7:33:56 PM PDT by woofie (It takes three villages and a forest of woodland creatures to raise a child in Obamaville)
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To: Jim Robinson; learner

Courtesy PING to you, Jim...

You are mentioned in #93

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2906619/posts?page=93#93


124 posted on 07/14/2012 7:36:55 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana (Why should I vote for Bishop Romney when he hates me because I am a Christian)
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To: Jim Robinson

I cannot disagree, even if I’m not certain if the clowns you list have set out to do what you accuse them of doing, or as Ralph Kramden might have said, were just born that way. Why, even ole Peggy Noonan, with whom we seldom agree nowadays, notes in today’s WSJ how lifeless this year’s POTUSential campaign is. Obumster is giving away targets every day and does his twin ever attempt to hit them?


125 posted on 07/14/2012 7:37:07 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: EternalVigilance

Hell, Churchill cozied up to Stalin when the need arose. It wasn’t that he didn’t despise Stalin, just that he had more pressing considerations at the time.


126 posted on 07/14/2012 7:38:32 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Belteshazzar; Longbow1969

Both of you have expressed my thoughts on this matter better that I could have- Thank you both!


127 posted on 07/14/2012 7:38:59 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Election 2012- Epic Fail candidate vs Epic Fail President!)
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To: RaisingCain
There is no real difference between Obozo or Mittens winning. It’s not our fight.

Wrong. It is every American's fight.

128 posted on 07/14/2012 7:39:54 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: Tigercap

A second - even less accountable - term from obama will destroy this nation.
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A first term from Willard will probably do the same thing...


129 posted on 07/14/2012 7:40:40 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana (Why should I vote for Bishop Romney when he hates me because I am a Christian)
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To: Revolting cat!

Obama is the worst incumbent president in history, surpassing even Jimmy Carter in that regard.

And Romney is by far the worst prospective Republican nominee ever.

Two losers who both deserve to lose.

The American people deserve, and need, much better.


130 posted on 07/14/2012 7:42:07 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (If you've surrendered your principles out of fear of Obama, you've already lost. - TomHoefling.com)
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To: CharacterCounts

Lovely rationalization Mr Quixote.


131 posted on 07/14/2012 7:43:30 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they were.)
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To: Jim Robinson

I agree with you Jim. I have resisted commenting on what I see as the end of American freedom. I truly fear that there are not enough of us left in this country that will stand on the principals of the founding fathers. It’s been truly dismaying to watch even those on this site buckle under the pressure and intimidation. I watch as members of organized religions accept abortion, homosexuals, and all manner of behavior contrary to teaching is scripture. With over 50% of the population on government assistance of some sort it’s obvious that it’s not only Dems who have turned from makers to takers. Add to that the bleeding hearts who facilitate the taking from those who produce and giving to those who take it’s not difficult to see that this country has fallen deeply into a socialistic mindset.

Those who have fallen for the meme that the best we can do is Romney are not going to be the ones who bring this country back to what the founders envisioned. If even the churches are falling from biblical principles I’m not sure where we look for strong principle people who will stand with us.


132 posted on 07/14/2012 7:43:58 PM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: Hugin

Do you prefer tyranny?


133 posted on 07/14/2012 7:43:58 PM PDT by DManA (DManA the 2000 year old man)
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To: GodAndCountryFirst

“I won’t vote for him, either. I don’t vote for socialists.”

I guess you’re not voting at all then, eh? That’s too bad. I have to vote. If I don’t, my friend Carl is going to kick my ass into next week. Course, Carl won’t be voting, either. He never made it out of ‘Nam.


134 posted on 07/14/2012 7:44:49 PM PDT by jivin gene (Breakin' up is hard to do)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Well, they didn’t elect Stalin Prime Minister of Great Britain.


135 posted on 07/14/2012 7:45:42 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (If you've surrendered your principles out of fear of Obama, you've already lost. - TomHoefling.com)
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To: Hugin

Well said, Hugin. Great post.


136 posted on 07/14/2012 7:47:22 PM PDT by Notary Sojac (Ut veniant omnes)
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To: Moonmad27

I have zero faith in Romney. He’s a statist pig. Should I vote for a communist pig or a statist pig? God help us.


137 posted on 07/14/2012 7:47:43 PM PDT by DManA
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To: learner

I put in 40+ hours a week on Tea Party issues, lots of people still active.. We can’t win them all first time around, just got to keep chipping away.


138 posted on 07/14/2012 7:49:11 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: All

At this present time we have a broken political system and a broken electorate and a country fighting for its moral soul.

The GOP primary system was hi-jacked by the moderates, democrats in blue states and the elite Rinos in the GOP who wanted their establishment candidate Mitt Romney to win at all cost the primary.

Rick Satorum won a whole lot of Conservative/Republican states but it never was enough to beat Romney because the system was set up for the Liberal states to be winner take all and to be with more delegates.

The GOP-E manipulated the system to get their guy in. Even attacking their own when they saw that Romney was the wrong guy and too weak to take on Obama.

GOP-E wanted this mess. They are the ones responsible for the situation of having a bad candidate with plenty of baggage and to weak to defend himself. They brainwashed people who will be hurt by him should he win and will likely turn on Romney like people did with George W.Bush.

So if we had guts, we’d run a tea party candidate. But the tea party is too confused now to know what to do.

So there are different groups of people out there who cannot seem to see eye to eye with each other within the GOP.

1. Moderates and establishment types who attacked all conservative candidates and the tea party. They went for Romney from day one.

2. Libertarians who have their own agenda and they ran Ron Paul to destroy the GOP and helped Romney out by attacking the conservative candidates for him.

3. Misguided Conservatives who will vote Romney instead of actively protesting him and demanding a better candidate. Who just did not get what was going on the last several years in the GOP and why Bush was no good.

Now I get that some are now voting Romney because they are afraid of Obama. I’m referencing those who are all about voting the so-called nominee because the GOP media wants it that way and say junk like those who don’t vote for him are electing Obama or some nonsense. Not those since the health care ruling who are upset and feel like they have to defeat Obama. I understand. But that is why I am unhappy with Romney as the nominee because he is no opposition to Obama.

We need a Joe Walsh, Allen West, Sarah Palin, and Scott Walker type candidate and not Mitt Romney.

People like me feel differently than the misguided conservatives.

5. We are people who want a new candidate and not Romney. Worried about him as the nominee and what it could do to the conservative movement. We also can’t come to defend the guy because we couldn’t defend him in the primary and instead attacked him. Actually he is not our guy because he is not conservative at all. Also we don’t care what others think because we’ve had it with the GOP-Elite. They are the road block to defeating liberals and Obama.

We feel like Ann Barnhart who told Romney to go home and then saw people walk out of some speech she made for daring to mention the GOP elite. Some so-called conservatives just do not get it. But nobody has the balls to run a tea party or conservative candidate. The GOP has neutered us.

And so that is the situation at hand. Therefore I’m voting for Virgil Goode and if he does not make the ballot in my state, I’ll either write him in or write in Palin.

I wish I knew why Sarah Palin really did not run. And why Michele Bachmann did not do a good job. What I do recall is conservatives were deeply divided about whom to back and it
did not help matters.

I can’t stand Obama. I can’t stand Romney. I want both of them defeated. So as someone said...We lost when Romney won.

I personally wanted Bachmann to win the primary then I backed Cain and Santorum. I hope we can find someone else like Allen West or Sarah Palin to run.


139 posted on 07/14/2012 7:49:39 PM PDT by Mozilla (Constitution Party)
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To: Timber Rattler

Not a great video to post (#20). That’s Charles Foster Kane applauding his wife who has just embarrassed herself in front on an audience of thousands.


140 posted on 07/14/2012 7:49:57 PM PDT by Notary Sojac (Ut veniant omnes)
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