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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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
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To: sport
I sure that if you check close enough or back far enough, you will find some type of ties to the philosophy of the Democrat Party in them.

Well, other than slavery, I don't know what the historic positions of the RAT party were. But I do know as far back as FDR with his Socialist Security, that the Socialists lightened up on running candidates, as the RATs were doing a fine job of promoting the progressive agenda.

Even now, if you go to either the Communist or Socialist Party websites you will see kudos to the RATs for their implementation of the progressive agenda.

Then there's the Progressive Caucus within the RAT caucus.

121 posted on 11/07/2013 8:19:52 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER ("The government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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To: dfwgator
>>HE’s a RINO!! << He's a Democrat in Republican clothing.

Well, isn't that what RINO means?

122 posted on 11/07/2013 8:25:28 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER ("The government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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To: jimbo123
The RNC can have my support when it stops standing for:

Run
No
Conservatives

123 posted on 11/07/2013 8:30:58 PM PST by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: riri
The GOP brand is poison to too many.

Well, that's largely due to the fascistic practices of the Communists and the RATagandist media.

Look at all the conservatives they have already trashed, and they have been nonstop attacking, demonizing and ridiculing the TEAparty.

Any other new party will get the same treatment.

124 posted on 11/07/2013 8:31:11 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER ("The government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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To: INVAR
(not meant to speak down to you).

Hey Look...over there...it's:

THE BILDERBERGERS! OH NO!

The Trilateral Commission!

Yaaaaaaagh! Run for your lives.

125 posted on 11/07/2013 8:38:42 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER ("The government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
Right, so I guess you’re just going to start blasting away then.

Say Hi to Tim McVeigh for us.

And that is all you GOP party hacks and sycophants have; the chameleon-like ability to join the Communists and MarxoFascists in castigating those who refuse to play ball according to Ruling Class rules as a domestic terrorist - while pretending to dislike the same.

People like you just continue to illustrate the fact that the GOP and those supporting it are nothing but Judenrats for the MarxoFascists. At minimum, you're Tory loyalists to the D.C. Crown.

In fact, you just proved that point based on your comment.

All because I state the fact that stopping this tyranny is going to have to come from OUTSIDE the system the Ruling Class and MarxoFascists have corrupted for themselves. Elections and votes are now irrelevant, as is our voice in national politics via the existing means.

126 posted on 11/07/2013 8:45:17 PM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
Hey Look...over there...it's: THE BILDERBERGERS! OH NO!

The Trilateral Commission!

Yaaaaaaagh! Run for your lives.

Just like a Liberal stooge from DeeCee.

Just another reason why the GOP and it's party hacks are indistinguishable from Leftists.

They employ the same exact ridicule tactics instead of addressing the substance of what is being discussed.

Hey genius, exactly where in anything I've ever posted online makes any reference to the groups you just mentioned???

Oh that's right - Alinsky didn't teach people like you how to have any integrity.

127 posted on 11/07/2013 8:49:42 PM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: INVAR

Oh No!

The New World Order!

Are those black helicopters?

Look out for the poison contrails, they’ve been spraying us for years.


128 posted on 11/07/2013 9:01:58 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER ("The government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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To: INVAR
I state the fact that stopping this tyranny is going to have to come from OUTSIDE the system the Ruling Class and MarxoFascists have corrupted for themselves. Elections and votes are now irrelevant, as is our voice in national politics via the existing means.

And your solution is civil war? Don't call me names.

Hey look a flying saucer.

129 posted on 11/07/2013 9:05:37 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER ("The government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

That’s all you got pal.

Your GOP-e masters have taught you well. When confronted with the truth - apply Alinsky and ridicule while continuing to espouse the need for everyone to vote for more Republicans and work within the party.

You have no clue pal.

None.


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

Moderates:
Dole
McCain
Romney

All loosers. Any questions?


131 posted on 11/07/2013 9:15:17 PM PST by kgrif_Salinas
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
And your solution is civil war?

I haven't said a thing on this thread about what 'my' solution is.

We know what yours is however;

Crouch down, lick the GOP-e master's hands, and wear their chains like newfound junk jewelry.

Don't call me names. Hey look a flying saucer.

That's hilarious coming from a guy who equates me with a domestic terrorist.

But Ruling Class Party Elitists and their drones are known for accusing those of that which they do themselves.

It's called projection pal. You do it well.

132 posted on 11/07/2013 9:15:41 PM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: INVAR
I haven't said a thing on this thread about what 'my' solution is.

Not specifically, but it's "outside the system"

equates me with a domestic terrorist.

I never said as much...but if the shoe fits...

133 posted on 11/07/2013 9:26:56 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER ("The government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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To: INVAR
Know what time it is.

It's time to start shooting the bastards. We just got our awkwardness stripped from us in a hard way. Too late to work within the system.

134 posted on 11/07/2013 9:28:02 PM PST by txhurl ('The DOG ate my homework. That homework, too. ALL my homework. OK?' - POSHITUS)
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To: INVAR
Know what time it is...It's time to start shooting the bastards.

Heh heh heh...

135 posted on 11/07/2013 9:30:23 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER ("The government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
*I haven't said a thing on this thread about what 'my' solution is*.

Not specifically, but it's "outside the system"

Well obviously feeble minds like yours can only entertain the idea that anything 'outside the system' means violence to achieve ends, which explains your inane suggestion I'm advocating 'civil war'.

I guess that speaks to your lack of education and woeful ignorance of facts, history and tactics.

*[ you] equate me with a domestic terrorist*.

I never said as much...but if the shoe fits...

Riiiight.

You never said as much.

And I guess Obama never said we could keep our doctors or health insurance if we liked them either.

Your statement I should say 'Hi' to Timothy McVeigh after 'blasting everyone' was 'mis-spoken' too - right?

How pathetic. You're either still living in your parent's basement and barely out of your teens, or you haven't figured out how not to debate like a liberal retard.

Please, extricate your head out of the GOP-e's arse, because we can't tell where they end and Leftists begin. They sound alike, and you right along with them.

136 posted on 11/07/2013 10:29:14 PM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

INVAR didn’t propose that, I did.

Here come the new black Chevys. Sigh.


137 posted on 11/07/2013 10:37:16 PM PST by txhurl ('The DOG ate my homework. That homework, too. ALL my homework. OK?' - POSHITUS)
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To: jimbo123
I am glad that this fight is finally out in the open.

I'm also glad that we will win.

138 posted on 11/07/2013 10:40:20 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: INVAR

You don’t have a solution.


139 posted on 11/08/2013 5:39:42 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER ("The government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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To: txhurl
INVAR didn’t propose that, I did.

Good thinking Einstein.

140 posted on 11/08/2013 5:41:18 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER ("The government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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