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G.O.P. Weighs Limiting Clout of Right Wing (Rove, Priebus to pick our candidates for us...)
NY Times ^ | 11/6/13 | JEREMY W. PETERS and JONATHAN MARTIN

Posted on 11/07/2013 5:44:54 AM PST by jimbo123

Leaders of the Republican establishment, alarmed by the emergence of far-right and often unpredictable Tea Party candidates, are pushing their party to rethink how it chooses nominees and advocating changes they say would result in the selection of less extreme contenders.

The push comes as the national Republican Party is grappling with vexing divisions over its identity and image, and mainstream leaders complain that more ideologically-driven conservatives are damaging the party with tactics like the government shutdown.

The debate intensified on Wednesday after Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, the deeply conservative Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, lost a close race in which Democrats highlighted his opposition to abortion in almost all circumstances, his views on contraception and comments in which he seemed to liken immigration policy to pest control.

The party leaders pushing for changes want to replace state caucuses and conventions, like the one that nominated Mr. Cuccinelli, with a more open primary system that they believe will draw a broader cross-section of Republicans and produce more moderate candidates.

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To: Waryone

This thread is going to be another stupid exercise of exhorting Freepers to practice insanity and discussing various new ways of doing so.

They just don’t get it.

There IS NO WORKING FROM WITH THE EXISTING INSTITUTIONS OR PARTIES TO REDRESS GRIEVANCES.

PERIOD.

We are a Marxofascist state with single party rule with the illusion of choice in two parties that represent The Beast.

I guess it’s going to take a boot on our necks for some to wake up to reality.

Parties and elections are IRRELEVANT. For crying out loud people - STUDY what Marxist and Fascist regimes do with politics! Know what time it is.

Your survival is going to depend on it.


101 posted on 11/07/2013 8:18:21 AM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: jpsb

I’m sorry I missed all your posts on those warnings. I do not read that many people even here understand where we have arrived or what is about to happen to us.

And yes, using Marxism to get to pure Mussolini-inspired Fascism was a surprise to me too in regards to how readily the American people swallowed it and accepted it.

Thanks to publik skool indoctrination - Socialism and Communism are seen as benevolent and moral in today’s supposed land of the free.


102 posted on 11/07/2013 8:23:31 AM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: freepersup

VERY GOOD TEMPLATE! And yes, I completely agree that MORE ACTION is required for the turn around that we all seek!


103 posted on 11/07/2013 8:36:58 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty (Be the Enemy Within the Enemy Within...)
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To: Waryone

“Do you really think that conservatives not turning out to vote frightens them? That is precisely what those socialists want.”

No, they want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to win elections on the backs of conservatives, but then they want to ignore them and implement their own agenda once they are in power.

What kind of sucker do you think I am that I will continue to vote for people that want to insult me, marginalize me, and then govern against my interests on top of that?


104 posted on 11/07/2013 8:43:44 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: jpsb; diverteach

The Republican Party Left Me FB page? I do like the idea of involving social media into this. I was amazed by what the 2M Bikers to DC did this past 9/11 to combat the Million Muslim March. The event looks like it will occur again next 9/11 and if so, I WILL be on my bike this time!

Another guy that we may want to get into the fold is Dennis Michael Lynch. He is very good at making documentaries (two about our border issues) and he will be releasing one soon which includes some of the 2M Biker to DC footage.


105 posted on 11/07/2013 8:44:02 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty (Be the Enemy Within the Enemy Within...)
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To: diverteach
When it's important ALWAYS send snail mail return receipt requested, or a FED EX. like service. I believe the person the item is mailed to has to sign for it, or a legitimate agent of the person, and you get the proof as hardcopy.

In 1997, Promisekeepers was at it's apex. They convened a gathering in Washington, DC; STAND IN THE GAP, which I attended. The gathering exceeded the planners expectations. The mall was packed literally, from the pool west of the Capitol bldg. to the Lincoln Memorial, and up the elliptical towards the White House. People traveled by trains, planes, buses and personal automobiles. Over a million people attended. The NPS conducted the counting. All of the trash was picked up by the attendees. Thousands of box lunches went unused and were given away ($10 a piece- retail) at the end of the day. THIS IS THE MODEL. I would get the organizers of this event involved or mimic their plans. It needs to be done before the next election. A date that occurs in time for the attendees to be able to go back home and rally, campaign, register voters, gather signatures, canvas neighberhoods, etc. DO EVERYTHING LEGALLY POSSIBLE, JUST AS MY ENEMY DOES.

106 posted on 11/07/2013 9:12:56 AM PST by freepersup (Patrolling the waters off Free Republic one dhow at a time.)
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To: Eagle of Liberty

Thank you. YOUR IDEA, spawned my idea. Thank YOU! One of us may have to take the bull by the horns. I’ve got to work in the Carribean for a couple of weeks. It’s a dirty thankless job but somebody’s gotta’ do it. I’ll see what’s up when I get back.


107 posted on 11/07/2013 9:17:54 AM PST by freepersup (Patrolling the waters off Free Republic one dhow at a time.)
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To: INVAR

I will point out to anyone interested that it took three civil wars for the Roman elite to destroy the Roman Republic and institute it’s form of fascism. And the last Romain civil war was waged by one of history’s great commanders. Julius Caesar. (Pompey was a pretty good commander too).


108 posted on 11/07/2013 9:20:12 AM PST by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: Eagle of Liberty

Perhaps, but then they are crazy. More likely, they think we will vote against their opponents, anyway.


109 posted on 11/07/2013 9:28:32 AM PST by expat2
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To: INVAR

Stupid person checking in. Raising my hand. Right here.

WELL LET’S START KI!!ING PEOPLE!!! I’ve got a few $ure man taaanks that I bought off a movie lot, and some gam muh goats loaded with some aaach eee and say bot rounds; I’d rather not say where they came from, if you get my drift. What have you got and what are your 10 digit grid coordinates? OVER-

To all the alphabet soup federal agencies listening in... this is known as sarcasm OK?


110 posted on 11/07/2013 9:33:41 AM PST by freepersup (Patrolling the waters off Free Republic one dhow at a time.)
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To: jpsb

Unfortunately most are apparently totally IGNORANT of history - or wrongly assume ‘it can’t happen here’ when it’s already self-evident to anyone who is willing to be honest.

But then, honesty is seen as a form of extremism in today’s culture and most prefer only smooth and easy things. Honesty is too harsh, and too extreme.


111 posted on 11/07/2013 9:36:39 AM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: freepersup

That’s all the GOP party hacks got - insult and derision. Makes them not any different than the seig-heiling stormtroopers of the Obama state.

Keep practicing insanity. See where that gets you.


112 posted on 11/07/2013 9:44:11 AM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: INVAR

Well if you don’t go out and work to elect candidates that espouse your views, you’re going to get ones that don’t. Sorry to be stating the obvious (not meant to speak down to you). So what is it you’ve got in mind?


113 posted on 11/07/2013 10:05:11 AM PST by freepersup (Patrolling the waters off Free Republic one dhow at a time.)
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To: freepersup

You still operate under the delusion that we are a Representative Republic and that Cook County has not gone National.

Voting and elections are irrelevant in a corrupted system. They are nothing more than a charade to continue an illusion of choice that no longer exists.

That’s how it worked in the Soviet Union. That is the reality that exists here now. Confirmation of that fact was the lead-up to Tuesday and the results.

You have no clue what time it is.

You cannot work from within a corrupted system or change it by any civil means from a people who are no longer governed by the same principles that founded a nation. That’s the history of human nature speaking. There is no exception to that rule. You can pretend otherwise but it will make no difference in the end.

But please, if it brings you solace in the time you have left before the real iron fist takes hold of you and yours, keep practicing insanity.

I’m sure you folks will create new and exciting ways to appeal to the king and parliament, Caesar and Politburo for redress.


114 posted on 11/07/2013 10:24:47 AM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: INVAR

Got it.

1- All is lost.

2- You know best.

3- Time to mix up some of that special Jonestown kool aid.

4- I gotta’ go brush my teeth.


115 posted on 11/07/2013 11:06:58 AM PST by freepersup (Patrolling the waters off Free Republic one dhow at a time.)
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To: freepersup

You seem already drunk on the Rovian Kool-Aid.

For people like you, history and facts do not matter. Stuck on stupid comes to mind.

Good luck with practicing your insanity.


116 posted on 11/07/2013 11:55:51 AM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: INVAR

For the first time in (my) voting history, I stayed home in 2012, so Rove’s influence over me was pretty limited.

The kool aid reference is... if all is lost- time to drink up.

Look, if you want to debate something, anything, using absolutes and divining what people are thinking... isn’t a very successful path.


117 posted on 11/07/2013 12:12:25 PM PST by freepersup (Patrolling the waters off Free Republic one dhow at a time.)
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To: freepersup

Why Kool-aid then if your reference is to ‘all is lost’?

Would not champagne or a beer be a better suggestion if the assumption of apocalypse is upon you?

Look, all WILL be lost if the prescription to stopping the MarxoFascist juggernaut in Washington is working from within the corrupted system that they have rigged to empower themselves.

When it became self-evident that the Founders had no redress from within the system they were beholden, then a separation was required. The need to preserve liberty took place from OUTSIDE the existing system.

If we are going to preserve our liberty, it will have to be done in the same way.

Elections and your vote are irrelevant in today’s Amerika. Cook County is now national - and reforming Washington cannot happen from within any political party or system.

It will have to come from OUTSIDE that system, and the Beast will not tolerate any threat or challenge to it’s authority. It will enforce itself by blood if it deems necessary.

The history of every Marxist/Fascist regime come into power exemplifies that fact.

Know what time it is.

It certainly is past the time of being able to work with the GOP . The OP tells us plainly their strategy is to ensure no Tea Party Conservative threatens it’s leadership.

The machine will write the rules to make that happen. It’s the Cook County Chicago Way.


118 posted on 11/07/2013 12:32:35 PM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: INVAR
"But then, honesty is seen as a form of extremism in today’s culture"

Big BUMP!

119 posted on 11/07/2013 5:19:25 PM PST by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: INVAR

Right, so I guess you’re just going to start blasting away then.

Say Hi to Tim McVeigh for us.


120 posted on 11/07/2013 8:08:08 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER ("The government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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