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Ok. everyone, we hear alot of talk about the "GOP Establishment", OK WHO are they, CALL 'EM OUT!
17 Oct 2011 | IS Navy Vet

Posted on 10/17/2011 8:01:30 AM PDT by US Navy Vet

NAME, NAMES and if possible put thier offenses.


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KEYWORDS: catholic; establishment; freetrade; globalism; gop; manufacturing; rino; slavery
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To: US Navy Vet

Mitch McConnell


21 posted on 10/17/2011 8:20:49 AM PDT by DarthVader (That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
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To: US Navy Vet

Anybody with the last name of “Bush”.


22 posted on 10/17/2011 8:20:58 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: US Navy Vet

Good question.

Simple answer - Anyone in the Party who has now, or has ever had decision making authority, or input, into what candidates get funding.


23 posted on 10/17/2011 8:23:26 AM PDT by Rodger Schultz (curmudgeonly&skeptical)
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To: US Navy Vet

Lindsy Graham, Juan McCain, Mitch McConnell, John Bonnier, the Bushs, Scott Walker, Olympia Snow, Lisa Murkowski, Orin Hatch, Mitt Romney, ........ there’s too damned many of them to list


24 posted on 10/17/2011 8:23:44 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: US Navy Vet

Anybody who denigrates Herman Cain, Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint, Michelle Bachmann, Scott Walker, etc. and tries to present Ricardo Perry, Mittens, McCain, etc. as true conservative options.


25 posted on 10/17/2011 8:23:51 AM PDT by Tonytitan
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To: central_va

You’re right.

I’d say, GOP = any Conservative who thinks that old methods and ideas can meet the new challenges to Conservatism.

THAT’S a lot of people.


26 posted on 10/17/2011 8:24:19 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Socialism means slavery." Lord Acton)
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To: DarthVader

John McCain
Mitch McConnell
Lindsay Graham
Arlen Specter now a D?, but a perfect example of a RINO for many years
All other republicans in the Gang of 14
William Cohen (the Rino in Clinton’s cabinet, sec of state)
Trent Lott
Newt Gingrich (He failed to deliver on his final plank in the contract with America, in a back room deal with the democrats. He had a republican change his vote - so that term limits would fail.) S#*@w you Newt for breach of contract.


27 posted on 10/17/2011 8:25:05 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: US Navy Vet

Juan McLame.


28 posted on 10/17/2011 8:25:31 AM PDT by liberalh8ter
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To: DarthVader
Mitch McConnell

Agreed. Wow! Who would have thought we'd ever see eye to eye? ;-) - OB1

29 posted on 10/17/2011 8:25:50 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. - Prov 22:3)
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To: US Navy Vet

Michael Steele: No longer RNC chairman, but general RINO who plays the race card on a weekly basis.

Mitt Romney: Architect of Obamacare. ‘Nuff said.

John McCain: Claims to be conservative, but always sides with liberals on all major issues out of a desire to look bi-partisan.

Lindsey Graham: Ditto.

The Bush Family: Claim to be Reagan Conservatives, but privately they have always had it in for Reagan. They are the epitome of Northeastern elitist liberal Republicanism. George W. Bush signed into law the largest expansion in the size and scope of the Federal Government since Medicare (since eclipsed by Obamacare). He also frequently caved to liberals on issues of reform of Fannie and Freddie, permanent tax cuts, spending reductions, etc.


30 posted on 10/17/2011 8:26:39 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo
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To: US Navy Vet

Finally, a thread that serves a purpose. I’ve been asking around and never get an answer. How do we know who is the dreaded establishment?


31 posted on 10/17/2011 8:28:47 AM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: US Navy Vet

Ed Rollins - vicious hack who hates conservatives, especially if the conservative is named Sarah Palin. He latched on to Michelle Bachmann, made her appear anti-Palin, and then became a plague on Bachmann’s campaign.


32 posted on 10/17/2011 8:29:42 AM PDT by Waryone (RINOs, Elites, and Socialists - on the endangered list, soon to become extinct.)
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To: Graewoulf
The RINO establishment is not unlike the Borg of the 1990s Star Trek TV series. Many of the politicians and pundits mentioned here were actually conservative in their earlier career, but once they come to Washington or become mainstream analysts, the tendency to "get along" increases as they become further embedded into the political, social, and cultural arenas.

Those that don't play the game are eventually forced from office (e.g. James Watt, Reagan's Interior Secretary), are removed from mainstream commentary (Glenn Beck, Pat Buchanan) or are marginalized as "kooks" (Michelle Bachmann, Ron Paul).

33 posted on 10/17/2011 8:30:57 AM PDT by Wallace T. (Shoot, shovel, and shut up)
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Chuck Grassley
John McCain
Orin Hatch
34 posted on 10/17/2011 8:32:06 AM PDT by Baynative (The penalty for not participating in politics is you will be governed by your inferiors.)
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To: Tonytitan

Wait a minute, Scott Walker’s name is on the list of establishment.


35 posted on 10/17/2011 8:33:06 AM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: US Navy Vet

Ok I’ll post some “Oldies but NOT goodies” on the RINO Feces Parade:
George Rommney(Mitt’s Daddy)
Prescott Bush(41’s Daddy and 43’s Grandaddy)
Gerald R. Ford(the ULTIMATE RINO and DC Insider)
Their stench continues EVEN today.


36 posted on 10/17/2011 8:34:13 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: US Navy Vet
Eric Cantor:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2793887/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2793889/posts

37 posted on 10/17/2011 8:40:04 AM PDT by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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To: US Navy Vet

AND 2 more:
Bob Dole AND
Bob Michel


38 posted on 10/17/2011 8:40:04 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: US Navy Vet

If you constantly post against Sarah Palin, you might be a GOP establishment.


39 posted on 10/17/2011 8:40:29 AM PDT by upsdriver (to undo the damage the "intellectual elites" have done. . . . . Sarah Palin for President!)
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To: US Navy Vet

FLASHBACK:

http://republicanwhip.house.gov/newsroom/2009/04/national-council-for-a-new-america-formed.html

Our National Panel of Experts:

Governor Haley Barbour
Governor Jeb Bush
Governor Bobby Jindal
Senator John McCain
Governor Mitt Romney

(snip)

Sincerely,

John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Mike Pence, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, John Carter, Pete Sessions, David Dreier, Kevin McCarthy, Roy Blunt

Mitch McConnell, Jon Kyl, Lamar Alexander, John Ensign, John Cornyn, John Thune, Kay Bailey Hutchison

//

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/republican-party/gingrich-to-be-a-public-face-of-cantors-effort-to-remake-gop/

Gingrich Joins Cantor’s Effort To Remake GOP


40 posted on 10/17/2011 8:43:47 AM PDT by maggief
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