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The GOP, torn apart by extremists, needs a hero to step up and lead the party. Peter Beinart thinks General David Petraeus is a lot like Ike.

Okay, I admit...I added Sarah to the ticket...Nikos1121

1 posted on 10/28/2009 6:09:23 AM PDT by nikos1121
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Reverse it then we’ll talk.


2 posted on 10/28/2009 6:10:03 AM PDT by rintense (You do not advance conservatism by becoming more liberal. ~ rintense, 2006)
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Reverse it and then we’ll talk.


3 posted on 10/28/2009 6:20:01 AM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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The GOP, torn apart by it’s inability to act differently than Democrats, . . .


4 posted on 10/28/2009 6:20:52 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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Ike wasn’t a great president.


6 posted on 10/28/2009 6:22:19 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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Beinart writes: “Parties that have grown narrow and extreme tend to spiral downward until they nominate someone who is not beholden to their narrow, extreme base.”

Isn’t this what we are seeing with the Democrat Party? Obama was elected, not because he was the most liberal of all U.S. Senators in 2007, but because most swing voters refused to believe it. His head fake to the center let them to believe that he would govern like a centrist. Now a severe case of buyers’ remorse is setting in as they realize that the man they voted for is an extreme leftist.

It’s not like conservatives didn’t try to warn them...

- JP


10 posted on 10/28/2009 6:45:14 AM PDT by Josh Painter ("Government cannot make you happy or healthy or wealthy or wise." - Sarah Heath Palin)
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I agree with Palin as the number two candidate - I really like her, but she just isn’t ready for the topspot. Not sure about the general though - where he stands on the issues.

anybody thinks Gingrich would stand a chance?


11 posted on 10/28/2009 7:06:55 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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i’d have no problems with Sarah on top

of the ticket


12 posted on 10/28/2009 7:06:59 AM PDT by sten
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