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Opposing Common Core: A Losing Issue, Even in GOP Primaries
Townhall.com ^ | May 25, 2014 | Michael Brickman

Posted on 05/25/2014 8:28:38 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/25/2014 8:28:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

We should just cut to the chase and declare all conservative issues to be losing issues and anoint Hillary Clinton president.


2 posted on 05/25/2014 8:30:45 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Kaslin

Common Core is just one more illustration of the fact that most elected Republicans aren’t really conservatives.

I vote in Republican primaries for now, but write-in when there is no conservative for vote for.

Watch the results from the UK tonight. See how people have given up on the major party that pretends to be conservative and exercised another option.


3 posted on 05/25/2014 8:38:06 AM PDT by Nextrush (AFFORDABLE CARE ACT=HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY BAILOUT ACT)
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You have a write-in option on priamry ballots? Wish we had that here.


4 posted on 05/25/2014 8:43:07 AM PDT by RonPaulLives (I won't be a neo-pawn in the game.)
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To: cripplecreek
We should just cut to the chase and declare all conservative issues to be losing issues and anoint Hillary Clinton president.

Exactly. Immigration? Loser issue. Deficit? Deficit ceiling? Loser. Gayism and abortion? So last century. Out of control regulators? Regulators with their own SWAT and a billion bullets? Constitution? Voter fraud? Hush. Are you crazy?

No, all that is left to us is to enact the DNC's agenda while huffing and puffing about reducing the rate of the increase in the budget.

5 posted on 05/25/2014 8:51:11 AM PDT by marron
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To: marron

Funny thing is that plenty of liberals are grumbling about common core now too.


6 posted on 05/25/2014 8:52:58 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Kaslin

Here in GA, we have one “GOP”er for it and one against it. I do, however, hope the anti common crap runoff candidate will prevail.


7 posted on 05/25/2014 8:54:47 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: RonPaulLives

You touch the screen for ‘write-in’ and key in the name on a keypad on the screen.


8 posted on 05/25/2014 9:23:36 AM PDT by Nextrush (AFFORDABLE CARE ACT=HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY BAILOUT ACT)
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To: Kaslin

“By the same token, there is mounting evidence that sitting Republicans who support Common Core will continue to be supported by their conservative base”

Nathan Deal is an ethically challenged RINO who has embraced every POS idea that has come down the pike in GA for the past 4 years. Sadly his challenger David Pennington who is a good guy and got our vote in the primary did not have the warchest to put on an effective campaign. Now we will likely have to vote for Deal in the general election to keep Jason Carter out.


9 posted on 05/25/2014 9:24:40 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: cripplecreek

Not Hilldawg, they’ll make B. Hussein Obama Messiah for Life of the USSA.


10 posted on 05/25/2014 9:24:46 AM PDT by wastedyears (I'm a pessimist, I say plenty of negative things. Consider it a warning of sorts.)
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To: freeangel

But will CC really be eliminated if they are elected or just a name change for it like Mike Pence did in Indiana???


11 posted on 05/25/2014 9:25:05 AM PDT by Nextrush (AFFORDABLE CARE ACT=HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY BAILOUT ACT)
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To: marron
Its very simple. If you don't want Common Core, don't take the federal money.

No different from those states that didn't want Obamacare, they didn't take the federal Medicaid money.

Likewise, if you don't want the federal strings on roads, don't take the federal road money.

12 posted on 05/25/2014 9:26:52 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Kaslin

Damn!


13 posted on 05/25/2014 9:47:27 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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Boy am I glad that the founders of this great country were not as cowardly as this editorial writer.

The brave American men of the Revolutionary War faced off against the most powerful country on earth for the sake of principles.

Now, the GOP, the party that is supposed to be principled, only looks at battles to be fought based on how popular the issue is and can the battle be won.

Cowards!


14 posted on 05/25/2014 9:54:00 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Kaslin

No need to vote. Judges are unelected, and they undo laws at their whim. And federal agencies make all the rules with no accountability.


15 posted on 05/25/2014 9:59:57 AM PDT by petitfour
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To: Kaslin

I thought the ones defeated in Indiana was because they flipped their support of the Marriage Amendment


16 posted on 05/25/2014 10:27:48 AM PDT by digger48
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The opposition to common core should be framed as a states rights issue. Getting out there and saying “we can do a better job than the federal government can in deciding what our children are taught” would be powerful and a positive message.


17 posted on 05/25/2014 10:31:33 AM PDT by grania
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Thanks Kaslin.
18 posted on 05/25/2014 11:39:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Kaslin.


19 posted on 05/25/2014 11:40:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: cripplecreek

Here is a common core English question....

correct this sentence,” We should obey our Government leaders”

This is Brainwashing.

screw this article and the writer

just another Rino appologist wanker.


20 posted on 05/25/2014 12:01:11 PM PDT by LtKerst
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