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NYP: GOP ACHILLES HEEL--HOW REPUBLICANS LOST WEST
New York Post ^ | March 28, 2008 | Ryan Sager

Posted on 03/28/2008 8:12:56 AM PDT by OESY

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1 posted on 03/28/2008 8:12:58 AM PDT by OESY
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To: TommyDale
Unfortunately, a few morons persist in thinking that by repelling potential GOP converts, losing elections and with it the power to appoint and set agendas, and forfeiting the power of the incumbency are the ways to strengthen conservatism. They will help bring about all the things they say they are against--in Fifth Column fashion, thus damaging the country irreparably--but by then, many will be gone so they won't be held responsible.

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2 posted on 03/28/2008 8:15:12 AM PDT by OESY
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To: OESY

Ummm Colorado has alot of wild eyed liberals.

The loss of common sense is not the fault of the GOP.

LOL LOL


3 posted on 03/28/2008 8:15:22 AM PDT by JaneNC (I)
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To: OESY

I don’t call myself a republican. I am a conservative who up to now voted republican.


4 posted on 03/28/2008 8:16:04 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: OESY

Wouldn’t have anything to do with socialists fleeing California, would it?


5 posted on 03/28/2008 8:18:09 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: OESY

I am not a Republican. I am a conservative, who up to this year has voted Republican.


6 posted on 03/28/2008 8:20:18 AM PDT by TommyDale (I) (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
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To: OESY

There are issues you use to roll out the base and then there are the issues of the day that you have to articulate positions and solutions for. Whining about gay people doesn’t solve tax or employment issues.


7 posted on 03/28/2008 8:20:20 AM PDT by misterrob (Obama-Does America Need Another Jimmy Carter?)
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To: OESY

America’s fall is tied directly to its abandoning the principles that we were founded on, namely Judeo-Christian. We have a generation of self-absorbed, impulse buyers who cannot see past what sitcom they are watching to pay attention to what is happening. They are so concerned with the last text they received and who they be hooking up with later they have basically become entitlement democrats by proxy.

Trying to correct a wrong in a party that has abandoned its roots is small beans in the face of this pandemic.


8 posted on 03/28/2008 8:20:51 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: OESY

It is really easy,

we have far left social liberals in the west who have infesting the GOP leadership.

Unfortunatly most of the ones we have managed to purge out over the recent years have now glomed onto el leftst mccainiac in hopes of stopping all the possitive inroads we have made.
(protecting marriage, second amendment, stopping illegal amnesty)


9 posted on 03/28/2008 8:21:06 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Resolute Conservative
I don’t call myself a republican. I am a conservative who up to now voted republican.

I am continually considered a Republican by friends and family, and I have to constantly remind them that I do not belong to any political party -- I am a conservative, and I vote for conservative candidates.

Unfortunately, there are no conservative candidates running for president.
10 posted on 03/28/2008 8:21:13 AM PDT by Thrusher (Remember the Mog.)
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To: JaneNC
What a Pack of lies .
The Pew Institute is run by Democrat party activists !
Go look at the leftists on there website.
CO was invaded by the eco crazies from Calif and all over the country. It had NOTHING to do with repub policies.
I used to do consulting there and locals were screaming about the invasion.
11 posted on 03/28/2008 8:23:11 AM PDT by ncalburt
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To: OESY

From what little I’ve seen, the explanation is rich liberals looking to move to a chic place to live. The Democrats have become the party of welfare recipients and rich yuppies, and Colorado is one of the fashionable places to build your new dream home. Or to move out of California and escape the mess you have made.

It’s much like people fleeing to New Hampshire from Taxachusetts.

Certainly something did happen after 2004 as well. Bush came back into office on a tidal wave of conservative support, and he immediately started blowing it. There was great discouragement in 2006, and even greater discouragement now, with that jackass McCain as the party’s choice.

Also, Mel Martinez ran as a “conservative,” as did many of the other new Dem senators elected that year, and regretably the voters believed his lies.


12 posted on 03/28/2008 8:24:02 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: OESY
It's got a Democratic governor, House, Senate and high court.

The High Court is Democrat? That's so wrong...

13 posted on 03/28/2008 8:27:36 AM PDT by BoneHead
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To: Cicero

Rich liberals see government pork profits as their road to wealth.

IOW the ultimate OPM.


14 posted on 03/28/2008 8:27:40 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory

exactly


15 posted on 03/28/2008 8:29:53 AM PDT by ncalburt
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To: OESY

It’s simple: the GOP establishment has gotten on small-government fiscal conservatives’ last nerve.


16 posted on 03/28/2008 8:30:09 AM PDT by steve-b (Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. --RAH)
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To: Cicero

another nice spot ruined by rich leftists is Whitefish MT.


17 posted on 03/28/2008 8:31:11 AM PDT by ncalburt
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To: OESY

all true!


18 posted on 03/28/2008 8:32:25 AM PDT by dennisw (Never bet on a false prophet! <<<||>>> Never bet on Islam!)
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To: OESY

I am no longer a Republican. I was one when they offered Conservative candidates, but no longer.


19 posted on 03/28/2008 8:33:52 AM PDT by Ingtar (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery. - ejonesie22)
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To: OESY

Colorado’s moved bluer due to all the Cali and Pac NW folks moving in, not because of an inherent shift of the domestic natives.


20 posted on 03/28/2008 8:34:04 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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