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Nails in the GOP coffin: Thoughts on the Iowa straw poll results
The Twin Cities Daily Planet ^ | August 14, 2011 | Professor David Schultz, Hamline University School of Business

Posted on 08/14/2011 11:35:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Romney is in trouble. In theory the frontrunner, but he is the frontrunner in a GOP party that no longer exists. He is part of the old Reagan Republican Party"

This is simply the knee-slapping funniest part of the article. If this dumbass Communist had spent 5 seconds on research, he'd have discovered that Slick Willard PUBLICLY declared he was NOT for Reagan-Bush. Yup, that means he voted for Carter, Mondale, Dukakis and Bubba. In fact, there's no evidence he's ever voted for ANY Republican unless they happened to share his last name... or perhaps just his first and last name.

21 posted on 08/15/2011 12:16:19 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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In fact, there's no evidence he's ever voted for ANY Republican unless they happened to share his last name... or perhaps just his first and last name.

How do we even know THAT? Maybe he's too liberal to even vote for himself. ;-)

22 posted on 08/15/2011 12:17:55 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Palin and Bachmann scare the pants off these no balls dimwits.


23 posted on 08/15/2011 12:34:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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Look beyond Bachmann. She received 28.6% of the vote, Paul 27.7%–together they accounted for 56% of the straw poll. These are two candidates who represent perhaps the most extreme agendas among the GOP field. Add to them Santorum who polled at 9.8% and one finds that nearly two-thirds of the straw poll went to what would appear to be non-mainstream candidates.

If they aren't mainstream I wonder why they did so well?

24 posted on 08/15/2011 12:42:05 AM PDT by Netizen (Path to citizenship = Scamnesty. If you give it away, more will come. Who's pilfering your wallet?)
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To: Jim Robinson; 2ndDivisionVet; onyx; potlatch; devolve; ntnychik; dixiechick2000

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.

25 posted on 08/15/2011 12:49:54 AM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Schultz is just another liberal simpleton trying to sell the notion that any Republican who won’t go along with Democrat tax hikes is an “extremist”. (yawn) What a bore.


26 posted on 08/15/2011 1:01:53 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: PhilDragoo

BUMP DAT!

Excellent!


27 posted on 08/15/2011 1:04:55 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Age, skill, wisdom, and a little treachery will always overcome youth and arrogance!)
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I have a rendezvous with a caddie!


28 posted on 08/15/2011 1:18:47 AM PDT by devolve ( If my graphics offend you or HLS scroll down - If too large simply carefully back away from your PC)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is–as I have argued for months–no longer the party of Ronald Reagan. Sarah Palin successfully remade the party into one captured more firmly by the Tea party and owing much of its ideological allegiance to a blend of Barry Goldwater, Pat Robertson, and Ayn Rand. Paul and Bachmann represent different wings of this new party, but Bachmann is better poised to run within this new party because her rhetoric and narrative are less pedantic and more appealing that Paul’s cerebral musings about the gold standard.

“no longer the party of Ronald Reagan.”

No, it’s no longer the party of George Bush I and II.
Ed Rollins, who ran Reagan 84 is running Bachmann. It’s no longer the party of Karl Rove.

The Bush wing has had control since 1988.

It’s a return to Reagan. Palin, Bachmann, Paul, all closer to Reagan than to Bush.


29 posted on 08/15/2011 1:22:41 AM PDT by truthfreedom
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“He is part of the old Reagan Republican Party (along with Pawlenty) now fading.”

There's your give away to who this idiot is, he is a progressive, crying about the liberal RINO’s being defeated by the American Tea Party movement!

The crying and stomping of feet will grow louder as the American Tea Party movement becomes stronger and the closer to the election in 2012!

May be time to start handing out pampers to the cry baby RINO’s and their liberal progressive socialist supporters!

Clearly Bachmann, Paul, and Palin leaves a bad taste in his mouth!

30 posted on 08/15/2011 1:31:44 AM PDT by paratrooper82 (We are kicking Ass in Afghanistan, soon we will be home to kick some more Asses in Congress!)
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Let me summarize for the “Perfesser”:

1. Oh Noes! The conservative are terrorists and taking over!

2. The Constitution is SCARY!

3. Oh what a world!!!! I’m melting ....


31 posted on 08/15/2011 1:39:30 AM PDT by Blado (Audemus jura nostra defendere)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This race is going to come down to two (if Palin doesn’t enter), Romney and Perry.


32 posted on 08/15/2011 2:04:29 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
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“Romney

Romney is in trouble. In theory the frontrunner, but he is the frontrunner in a GOP party that no longer exists. He is part of the old Reagan Republican Party (along with Pawlenty) now fading. As the Party has shifted look to see it be more difficult for him to maintain his lead. Bachmann represents the new center of the new Republican Party. She and Paul may not be the fringe, Romney and Pawlenty are. “

Folks, after a ‘news article’ like that, if there’s a right winger left that denies that we are in fact living Orwell’s 1984, we might as well just drink the kool aid now.


33 posted on 08/15/2011 2:07:16 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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Bachmann wins, Pawlenty is out. What do learn from the Iowa straw poll?

The Iowa Straw Poll, a self selected group holding a popularity contest, means squat.

One year, Pat Robertson ran away with it and, in it's entire history, only one Iowa Straw Poll winner has gone on to win the Presidency.

34 posted on 08/15/2011 2:24:56 AM PDT by Polybius
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Perry changes the equation for Bachmann. They will fight out for many of the same supporters and the challenge will be to see what happens. Perry is Bachmann but with executive experience.

I see Perry as the latecomer to strip off some Bachmann votes while Mitt gets a plurality, at least as the playing field stands. It worked for McCain.

But Perry’s support demonstrates again how far to the right the GOP has moved.

Yeah, but not far enough, imho.

35 posted on 08/15/2011 2:34:27 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another Marxist is bummed out because it appears that the GOP is not going to nominate another Bob Dole or John McCain this time around.


36 posted on 08/15/2011 2:41:54 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And commie socialists love Obama, after all he is one of their own.


37 posted on 08/15/2011 2:52:01 AM PDT by Sea Parrot (The entitlement class will prove to be the liberals very own creation of a Frankenstein monster.)
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To: Blado
Let me summarize for the “Perfesser”:

1. Oh Noes! The conservative are terrorists and taking over!

2. The Constitution is SCARY!

3. Oh what a world!!!! I’m melting ....

:) Spot on!

38 posted on 08/15/2011 2:53:11 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ha ha! What a ham line! Does this professor actually believe his claim that Romney is in the Republican line?


39 posted on 08/15/2011 2:57:48 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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This is from the author’s bio and it explains his perspective:

“Professor Schultz is past president, lobbyist, and executive director for Common Cause Minnesota”


40 posted on 08/15/2011 3:00:33 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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