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Time to say goodbye to the GOP?
Communities Digital News ^ | June 25, 2014 | Boyd Cathey

Posted on 06/29/2014 8:23:05 PM PDT by kingattax

It’s time to say good-bye to the establishment GOP and “mainstream conservatism.”

Yesterday in Mississippi, dirty politics won again. Republican Party elites, the Republican National Committee, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Senator John McCain, and incumbent Senator Thad Cochran’s specially targeted outreach to black and Democratic voters did the trick.

Cochran ran behind state senator and conservative Chris McDaniel in the June 3 primary. To make up his deficit, Cochran, with full support from the national GOP, directed a full press effort to enlist voters who basically oppose everything that Republicans are supposedly for.

Thus, Cochran, with support from the national GOP, reached out to hostile liberals and Democrats, the NAACP, and other groups that scorn conservative ideas. He pleaded with them to support him, to keep the “extreme right” and “crazies” and “racists” from taking his seat.

In return, he promised more of the same: more government goodies, more spending, more welfare checks, more “moderation,” and more outreach to those hostile groups. An outrageous Cochran flyer warned black voters against voting for a candidate — McDaniel — who would suppress their vote and return them to the bad old times of segregation.

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To: kingattax
Cochran, with support from the national GOP, reached out to hostile liberals and Democrats, the NAACP, and other groups that scorn conservative ideas. He pleaded with them to support him, to keep the “extreme right” and “crazies” and “racists” from taking his seat

And now he owes them. Or, Mississippi owes them as it were.

21 posted on 06/29/2014 9:17:20 PM PDT by uncitizen (Buckle up! We're on the Facism Fast Track!)
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To: Brimack34

The GOP died in Mississippi. They are stupid to realize it.


Yes they did.


22 posted on 06/29/2014 9:21:51 PM PDT by boycott
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To: narses

Sounds like just all lather/rinse/repeat of what some (most?) in the TEA Party say.


23 posted on 06/29/2014 9:26:51 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: uncitizen

you can bet they will come to collect


24 posted on 06/29/2014 9:30:58 PM PDT by kingattax (a real American would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.)
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To: kingattax
I knew the Repugnants were dead during Jorge Busho's time in office. I nearly puked voting his second term as well as for McSlime.

When the Repugnant candidate is the same as the rest of the America haters, why bother?

25 posted on 06/29/2014 9:49:09 PM PDT by LouAvul (In favor of reducing government to a more common sense entity.)
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To: kingattax

What do you call the GOP without the conservative vote?

The Whigs


26 posted on 06/29/2014 9:58:41 PM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: kingattax

Yes. Yes it is.


27 posted on 06/29/2014 10:12:52 PM PDT by Washi
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To: kingattax

Nobody seems to get it.

You take the voters, divide them approximately in half along the big government/small government spectrum, and you have the two party system. It doesn’t matter what you call these parties.

The problem is, that dividing line between the halves has shifted toward big government, because the demographic has shifted. It doesn’t matter what you call the parties. Voters have become dumber. Renaming the parties won’t make the voters smarter.

Only changing the demographics of the voters will change politics. Either have a famine or other disaster that effects the dumb half of the voters more than the smart half, or change the “one person, one vote” paradigm.

Nothing else will have any effect.


28 posted on 06/29/2014 10:22:43 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: kingattax

To follow the lead of Ronaldus Magnus:

“I didn’t leave the Republican Party, it left me. . . “


29 posted on 06/30/2014 2:12:43 AM PDT by Salgak
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To: kingattax

If the Tea Party can organize, then I suspect a lot of conservatives, including those left in the Republican Party, would switch over.

The Republican leadership only seems interested in keeping its conservatives in check. There is really no opposition party right now. This is why the Democrats are running wild. Now there are some exceptions like Ted Cruz, but I’m talking about the Republican Party leadership on the national level.


30 posted on 06/30/2014 2:36:16 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: kingattax

I suspect that the entire Republican Leadership is compromised too. The NSA has admitted they spy on congress.

If I had to guess, then my bet is that if a congress member plays along life is good. However, if they don’t play along, then someone in the media will expose them for an affair, corruption, etc...

So now anytime I hear a congressman did..... In the media. My first thought is I wonder what that politician opposed to get him exposed?


31 posted on 06/30/2014 2:48:23 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: kingattax

Reagan’s attempt to convert the GOP to a conservative party has failed.


32 posted on 06/30/2014 4:11:29 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: kingattax
The nomination of mccain was my "abandon ship" signal.
33 posted on 06/30/2014 4:29:56 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: kingattax

I’ve been a Republican for 40 years.
I’m thoroughly disgusted with them at this point and will not again call myself one.
No difference between the two parties.
Both want this big gub mint to continue getting bigger as they are all making loads of money and don’t want to rock the boat.
Go along get along and continue to fleece the people.
Well to hell with em both.
And as for this un-American antiChristian baboso fag in the white hut?
F him


34 posted on 06/30/2014 4:52:25 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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To: kingattax

Here on FR? The point is moot.

In America as a whole? Conservatives, inexplicably, appear to remain in the minority on the right side of the political spectrum. A big chunk of the political “right” still votes for the RINO/GOPe candidate, just like demonrats reflexively vote for 0bama and his ilk.

I would hope that this mess in the SIPP’ would slap a bunch of them back to reality, but I fear it won’t matter one dang bit.


35 posted on 06/30/2014 5:31:00 AM PDT by jaydee770
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To: narses
Why not call it the US CONSTITUTION Party? Adherence to the US Constitution is what our goal is after all.


36 posted on 06/30/2014 5:35:57 AM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: kingattax

Party means very little anymore. It is more like the Government against the People. This is not going to be fixed by elections anyway. Too late for that.

People would be better off figuring out how to take power from the government who is setting in place the Global Government.

This party thing is another way of dividing and all the hoopla is a distraction from what is really going on.


37 posted on 06/30/2014 5:36:37 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Caipirabob
The nomination of mccain was my "abandon ship" signal.

The nomination of Romney was the same, only louder.

38 posted on 06/30/2014 9:58:18 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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