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Marco Rubio and the Coming Conservative Revolt
New York Magazine ^ | 12/10/2012 | Jonathan Chait

Posted on 12/10/2012 10:18:24 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway
Jonathan Chait Barf Alert!
21 posted on 12/10/2012 11:27:13 PM PST by 867V309
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To: Norm Lenhart; All
Lets be honest:

Romney won the nominations because CONSERVATIVES gave Romney the nomination on a platter.

We can't circle the wagons and agree on ANYONE can we?

There are Freepers who hate Gingrich.

There are Freepers who hate Santorum.

There are Freepers who did not want to support Herman Cain.

I supported all three of the above, each when they had a chance.

But? The “purist” and holier than thou types in our own Conservative movement gave us Romney.

Many of us then did our best to help Romney, but those who would NOT agree to any Conservative before the nomination, now want to blame it on the “GOP e” when they SHOULD be looking in the mirror!

We are often our own worst enemy.

22 posted on 12/10/2012 11:30:49 PM PST by Kansas58
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To: nickcarraway

Well... This guy Chait is clearly a Democrat scumbag, but if you ignore the snide tone he does a nice job here.
Pretty accurate analysis, IMO.

If the GOPe sells out conservatives by agreeing to pour even more tax dollars down the government toilet, then those leaders must be flushed down the toilet of history.

Every additional penny of taxes that gets flushed down the government toilet is an additional penny for the rats to spend buying the votes of their party base of moochers, bums, deadbeats, and parasites. Money is fungible. Any argument that claims “new revenues” will be used to (reduce the deficit / pay down the debt / fund the military / whatever) is lying horse manure.


23 posted on 12/10/2012 11:34:13 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Kansas58

That is the case.

The enemy divides us, the GOP divides us and we divide ourselves.

We ain’t going anywhere anytime soon.


24 posted on 12/10/2012 11:34:13 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Tzimisce

Yup. More “moderate” crap. I want my politicians to be gun-toting, non-pc right-wingers.


25 posted on 12/10/2012 11:34:13 PM PST by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

I want to see that happen. In the meantime my great desire is to see many thousands protesting at White House passionately demanding our troops be brought home NOW not another man die in Afghanistan because this CIC is making them stay there for a date of ending and there is no mission. A Seal was killed today, the other day a 25 year old marine. Why did they give their lives, Obama answer what great mission have you engaged them in worthy of the sacrifice? We must demand it stop.. I’m too old. Can some great body of patriots plan a protest?


26 posted on 12/10/2012 11:38:08 PM PST by maranatha (Pray always for our military and their families)
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To: nickcarraway
They nominated Romney and expected victory?!!! What fantasy world are these Republicans living in? After the first few debates I knew it was all over and there was no chance of defeating Obama.
27 posted on 12/10/2012 11:44:58 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Kansas58
The “purist” and holier than thou types in our own Conservative movement gave us Romney.

No they didn't. They merely settled for Romney after the GOP establishment elite spent months force-feeding him down the throats of casual Republican voters and leaners, a task that was made easy for them thanks to the lazy rat newsrooms who remembered Romney from last time and followed went their meme.

You really think that all along the "conservatives" wanted the liberal Massachusetts governor and father of the original version of commie-care as the standard bearer for the GOP? Get a grip.

28 posted on 12/10/2012 11:49:12 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: max americana

In other words, not Rubio.


29 posted on 12/10/2012 11:49:59 PM PST by Tzimisce (What do you do when every every branch of the government is corrupt and aligned against you?)
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To: Carry_Okie

I am sure I meant that the Pied Piper comes to mind when a liberal rag such as the New Yorker tells you to hail the creature.


30 posted on 12/10/2012 11:50:39 PM PST by stanne
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To: Kansas58

Your comment is pretty accurate......I still think our issue is that no one is laying out the message about capitalism and taxes and spending in an easily understood sound bite that is digestible by the masses. The candidate that does this for the conservative cause will be the next conservative nominee....imho...looks like Rubio for now......


31 posted on 12/10/2012 11:59:48 PM PST by superfries
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To: nickcarraway

Clue; the republican party is well on its way to “WeekEnd at Bernies”..
Its quite dead you know..

Boehner and McConnell are holding it up by its arms..
It may even be smoking a joint..


32 posted on 12/11/2012 12:00:06 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Kansas58

As did I. I had reservations, but would have gladly voted for any of the three.

The problem is that the CINOs actions reinforced Romney’s lifetime of stupidity and two full campaigns/tens of millions of dollars worth of lying and corruptly trashing his opposition, by running around FR and elsewhere praising his ‘conservatism as if he were Obama at the Greek Pillars and condemning anyone not on board as ‘traitors to their country’. We were called ‘purists’ and condemned for sticking to conservative ideals and beliefs. Since the opposite of purity is corruption, I wear the badge proudly.

None of the above CINO BS is remotely conservative. People who did so are not remotely conservative. They are the enemy every bit as much ‘our’ problem as a person openly supporting the bullshit of Bohner and the GOP.

Words mean things whether CINOs want them to or not. “Conservative’ requires conservative actions, not feel-good words. And by their actions, determining truly conservative people is not hard to do.

If people are either too stupid or too willfully ignorant to tell the difference, then Conservatism is dead and lets just embrace the greater evil.


33 posted on 12/11/2012 12:11:10 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: nickcarraway

No way would I go with Rubio!!!


34 posted on 12/11/2012 12:23:28 AM PST by dalereed
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To: dalereed

Careful, you’ll have half his fanbase calling you a traitor to your country too.

The DREAM acts stuff is pure conservatism you see...And that pesky parent birth thing is OK since Obama did it.

That’s conservative too.


35 posted on 12/11/2012 12:25:57 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: nickcarraway

What? Lib scaremongering not calming down post-election . . . ? Gotta find the next Emmanuel Goldstein to set up as the straw man for the two-minute hate?


36 posted on 12/11/2012 12:32:58 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Norm Lenhart

“Careful, you’ll have half his fanbase calling you a traitor to your country too”

I’ll wear the tag proudly!


37 posted on 12/11/2012 12:35:13 AM PST by dalereed
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To: Kansas58

You sure they’re conservatives? Name ‘em and let’s see who exactly is conservative out of the bunch. Let’s be honest, indeed.


38 posted on 12/11/2012 12:39:58 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Kansas58

Purists didn’t give us Romney. The GOP-e gave us Romney since they wanted the naive to believe he was the only one who had a chance against Obama and some people were foolish enough to believe them.

I’ve known for years that there was no way any socialist republican like Romney could ever beat the democrats because they are democrats. Romney proved that beyond a shadow of anyone’s doubt. He didn’t engage our enemy because our enemy is his friend.

As for Rubio, even he knows he’s not NBC but he’s hoping against hope that the same idiots who fell for that Romney baloney will be just as naive about his situation.


39 posted on 12/11/2012 12:49:43 AM PST by Waryone
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To: dalereed

Hopefully we’ll have to take up a collection. You seee, we are rapidly running out of those tags and need to get more printed up.

Notice that since the election, and Bohner’s BS, people are finally OPENLY saying it’s all been a lie? And notice how on EVERY thread like this, the people who bestowed those tags on us are getting shriller? I could name names, but I think they are obvious enough to all.

THIS is how ‘change’ happens. Now we just have to let the lurkers know that they aren’t alone and that it’s not them, but the CINOs and their supporters that deserve the mockery.


40 posted on 12/11/2012 12:59:39 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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