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1 posted on 05/20/2015 9:42:50 PM PDT by WilliamIII
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Some claimed Pitchfork Pat was the future of the GOP, though in the end he mainly contributed to its presidential defeats.”

And look where the GOP is today. Look where the U.S. is today. Total decline.

2 posted on 05/20/2015 9:46:46 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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I think most favored nation status for China is when free trade agreements stopped being authentic.

The TPP is cronyist garbage for big business, and allows backdoor de facto amnesty for aliens who come to America.


3 posted on 05/20/2015 9:51:08 PM PDT by Shadow44
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“Whose” to blame? Really? “Whose”?

For the grammar-deficient, try “Who’s” as in “Who is”.

ARGH!


4 posted on 05/20/2015 9:54:24 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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How could a high tax, big government type like Buchanan, whether he claimed to be a Republican or admitted he was Democrat like he is, cause a civil war in the GOP.

The most obvious change since 1988 and now is that in 1988 the Democrat brand was at a low. GHW Bush ran on the simple platform of calling his opponent a liberal. Liberal was such a dirty word that leftist gave up that word they had appropriated from advocates of freedom and went back to a prior discredited brand of theirs, progressivism.

Since then the situation has switched. By working through the culture the GOP or Republican brand has been discredited at least with style voters. Democrats are seen as hip while Republicans as old and out of it. But that probably peaked in 2008. Obama was still avant-garde enough to win reelection in 2012.

The Dims betting this will work again in 2016. The problem is their likely candidate doesn’t have much if any style. So will those low attachment voters who put Obama over the top twice, bother to come out and vote this year. Remember even the youtube sensation “Obama Girl” in 2008 did not get around to actually voting for him. These voters are hard to motivate unless you can sell them on the it is cool factor to vote for you. Are they really going to think it is cool to vote for the current Dim front runner?


5 posted on 05/20/2015 10:02:32 PM PDT by JLS
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Whose going to loose?


8 posted on 05/20/2015 10:36:37 PM PDT by Signalman
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Gotta love WSJ, doncha? GWHB and Dole both lost big to Clinton, but you’d think somehow Buchanan was the guy that lost.


9 posted on 05/20/2015 10:44:08 PM PDT by dangus
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PAT WAS RIGHT!!!! I always supported him back then on trade and immigration.


15 posted on 05/21/2015 12:32:51 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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As Middle America rises in rage against “fast track” and the mammoth Obamatrade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership

I don't see much evidence of this supposed rage.

16 posted on 05/21/2015 1:31:58 AM PDT by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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Amen


19 posted on 05/21/2015 2:23:19 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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20 posted on 05/21/2015 2:23:52 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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If I could say it as briefly possible, “Because GOP politicians are more concerned about their DC/national image than what their constituents want.”


22 posted on 05/21/2015 3:18:38 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Sometimes its tough to tell whose in charge, unless you aks.


23 posted on 05/21/2015 3:39:47 AM PDT by Rocky (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. George Orwell)
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Sometimes its tough to tell whose in charge, unless you aks.


24 posted on 05/21/2015 3:39:47 AM PDT by Rocky (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. George Orwell)
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after the GOP (Gave Obama Power) party put the
impostor in office, the GOP focused on imposing
RomneyCARE and RomneyMarriage and arming al Qaeda.

of what use is the GOP to America?

NONE.


26 posted on 05/21/2015 3:46:34 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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...the party has fallen upon hard times.

Yes, massive election wins in congress last two cycles, took the senate in 2014, own a large majority of the Governorships, large majority of State houses are GOP controlled...

A huge number of young energetic GOP running for POTUS, (some are even conservatives ! )

Buchanan sure has a weird definition of "hard times"

27 posted on 05/21/2015 3:53:50 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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blame Perot. Without Perot, HW wins and gets credit for the recovery and liberalism is discredited for another generation...maybe we get a flat tax...with clinton, he gets credit for the recovery and budget and is able to get the media libtards to circle the wagons and gop never truly recovered....


31 posted on 05/21/2015 5:42:10 AM PDT by Homer1
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The people of the GOP that’s whose


65 posted on 05/21/2015 4:59:47 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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