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1 posted on 09/29/2014 8:38:47 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706
Astroturf does not a grassroots make.
2 posted on 09/29/2014 8:40:59 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: cotton1706

The GOP is going to nominate another dud.

Hillary is going to have a stroke or flame out under some withering scorched-earth attack from the hard hard Left.

Get ready for the Fake White Indian as your POTUS.


3 posted on 09/29/2014 8:44:13 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: cotton1706

Romney who could not garner the conservative vote because is not a conservative, is being encouraged to run again, while the last several years he trashed conservatives....the question is WTF is wrong with these consultants and GOPe people?
Romney has a big L on his forehead (could be loser or liberal or loser liberal).


4 posted on 09/29/2014 8:45:13 AM PDT by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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To: cotton1706

” And Romney himself declined to close the door on the possibility in an interview with Romneyphile Hugh Hewitt. “

Just follow Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved to get your latest instructions from the GOP establishment.


6 posted on 09/29/2014 8:47:35 AM PDT by Pelham (“This is how they do it in Mexico”- California State Motto)
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To: cotton1706

The Republican Party Leadership once again is going to push Democrat light candidate which will ensure another Democrat victory in 2016.

They either have not learned a thing or they are INTENTIONALLY keeping conservatives in check by running these Democrat light candidates that WILL THROW the election to the Democrats.


7 posted on 09/29/2014 8:47:50 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: cotton1706
No more voting for RINOs ever, under any circumstances. Period.

In the past I voted for McCain, and Romney nationally, and for Scott Brown in Massachusetts. But I guess it depends on your belief in how far gone this nation is, and what it will take to restore it, assuming that is even possible at this point.

Personally, I now believe that the only way to save America at this point (assuming such a thing is still possible) is to put conservatives in political offices and enact an agenda based on free markets, limited government and the rule of law. As long as we have a Republican party that actively opposes those ends (and we do, obviously), then I believe our only (slim) hope is drastic action.

As long as the Republican Party establishment believes that it can continue to survive by being Democrat-lite, and that it can continue to maintain power while actively fighting against the core principles of liberty, free markets and Constitutional law, it will never make the necessary change of direction.

Only when the Republican party understands that it must change or die can we hope to turn this country around. Our too-long-serving entrenched establishment politicians can still enjoy their comfy lifestyles, their wealth, power and prestige as members of a minority party. So why should they bother to change direction?

Surely a John Boehner (or an Eric Cantor -- had he not been defeated -- or a Mitch McConnell) would be just as happy to be minority leaders if the election cycle didn't go their way. Yes, they would prefer to be majority leaders, but what good would it do them if a conservative Republican Party won the majority and then threw them out of their cushy positions and all those perks, replacing them with real conservatives?

Ask yourself -- which do you think Mitch McConnell would prefer -- a majority Republican party in which he was stripped of his position by a conservative majority, or a minority Republican party in which he could remain Senate minority leader because the majority of Republican senators were RINOs?

You may argue that we have no time to wait for the Republicans to realize that their only choice is to change or die as a viable party. But if we don't have time for that, then what makes you think we have time to wait for the RINOs and the GOP-e to pursue a "moderately marginal" course of action designed only to maintain their personal fiefdoms at the expense of a free America operating under the rule of Constitutional law?

The GOP had majority power in the House and Senate, and occupied the White House, 10 years ago. What did all that power do to move the agenda of liberty forward? Answer: nothing.

A GOP that cannot even sell liberty, limited governments and free markets to the American people is worse than useless. It is a party of tyranny enablers, and I will have none of it.

Unbelievably, today we once again face the stark choice between liberty and death.

Once again, these are the times that try men's souls. Conservatives need to be waging aggressive war against the totalitarian leftist tyrants on all fronts -- in the branches of government at the federal and state level, in academia, in the media, through public demonstrations, and in the voting booth.

Many argue that we must continue to vote for "the most electable conservative," which means "vote for the RINO if no conservative is running." But I respectfully disagree with that choice. I am done enabling.

If we really are to lose the greatest country in the history of the world, then let's at least be fighting for it when it goes down.

And who knows, maybe -- just maybe, if we show sufficient resolve and conviction -- divine Providence will once again provide the support that gave our founders their unlikely victory in 1776, and grant us once again the "new birth of freedom" that Lincoln called for a century later.

If you reward bad behavior, you get more of it. The RINOs have managed to own the Republican party because they know that conservatives have nowhere else to go.

To continue voting for RINOs is to play right into that strategy. The RINOs have become so certain of your vote that they actually believe they can continue to stay in power by declaring outright war on the conservative base.

And when they do that, they are actually declaring war on core American principles -- war on liberty, war on free market economics, and even war on the Constitution.

The RINO Republicans cannot even make an appeal to the traditional American love of those principles, because they have lost the credibility and historical awareness to articulate them, let alone promote them.

Yes, having Harry Reid continue as majority leader is a horrific scenario. But having RINO Republicans win that office is only a marginally better short-term outcome.

And in some ways it is even worse, because as the RINOs “reach across the aisle" to promote marginally modified Democrat policies, they give the Democrats cover from the well-deserved blame for the horrific damage that they have unleashed on our country in the last five years.

America is out of time now. We cannot continue on the current path. And as things continue to deteriorate, who do you think the voters will blame if the Republicans are in power when the 2016 elections come around?

You think Mitch McConnell's senate will repeal Obamacare? You think it will take the right position on immigration? You think a Republican Senate will vote against Obama’s left wing Supreme Court nominations?

America needs clear, passionate and articulate voices to advocate and defend our founding principles, to secure our borders, to preserve our nation, and to take legislative and administrative steps to turn this country around, assuming it still can be turned around.

Majority leader Mitch McConnell will NEVER provide that voice or leadership. He is not the guy to turn things around for our formerly blessed nation.

But in 2016 a newly terrified Republican party will be forced to court instead of alienate the conservative base, and come 2017 will be in a position to put the party and our nation on the proper path. Such a duly chastised party has a real chance of nominating a Ted Cruz, instead of a Mitt Romney who, according to last night's panel on Fox News, is at this point the likely Republican presidential nominee.

So in November, for those whose only choice in the mid-terms is between a RINO and a Democrat, I urge them to stay home on election day, or vote third-party -- anything to prove the RINOs wrong in thinking that they can stay in power by literally declaring war on conservatism.

Think about it.

8 posted on 09/29/2014 8:48:01 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: cotton1706
Still, the nominees' surnames since Reagan almost speak for themselves: two Bushes, a Dole, McCain, and Romney.

That is who the GOPe is.

The conservatives are Cruz, Palin, and a couple of others.

We really need a combination of the two wings to crush the Marxists. The closest combination that I can see that is capable of doing that would something like a Cruz/Walker or maybe a *gulp* Cruz/Romney ticket.

10 posted on 09/29/2014 8:50:18 AM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: cotton1706

Exactly why we need Ted Cruz for President. No more Romneys, no more McCains.


11 posted on 09/29/2014 8:51:29 AM PDT by CdMGuy
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To: cotton1706

Romney only ran in the presidential race once, although his campaign machine is not approaching 24 years or six presidential cycles in age.


12 posted on 09/29/2014 9:25:02 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: cotton1706

I took a ‘straw poll’ over at hot air the other day - it wasn’t really a real poll, more like an ad for Townhall - but any way - Romney was way, way in the lead.

I didn’t know whether to be completely shocked, or just write it off as BS.


15 posted on 09/29/2014 9:29:02 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: cotton1706

I’ve predicted a Third Party Run that has a major impact - maybe even more than one major third party candidate.

It will be a dramatic election year.


19 posted on 09/29/2014 10:39:45 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
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--- That may seem hard to believe given how the establishment dominated the Tea Party in this year's Senate primaries. ---

It's the incumbency, stupid.

37 posted on 09/29/2014 4:10:06 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: cotton1706
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Ancient Roman Lawyer, Writer, Scholar, Orator and Statesman, 106 BC-43 BC)


39 posted on 09/29/2014 8:16:32 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
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