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After Foisting Romney on Base, GOP Elites Now Start to Gripe
realclearpolitics.com ^
| September 24, 2012
| Benjamin Domenech
Posted on 09/24/2012 7:05:17 PM PDT by neverdem
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posted on
09/24/2012 7:05:23 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
Hmm ~ all predicted last December.
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posted on
09/24/2012 7:07:17 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: neverdem
Romney won because the other candidates split the anti-Romney vote.
"One-man-one-vote" sounds nice, but it's about the worst voting system possible.
Had voters been able to express their preferences as a ranked list of candidates, Romney would have been near the bottom for majority of people.
To: neverdem
One gets the feeling that the GOP-e care more about destroying the conservative wing of the party than winning the election.
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posted on
09/24/2012 7:12:00 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: neverdem
Remember, those elites have to hire Mexicans to change their lightbulbs!
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posted on
09/24/2012 7:12:09 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: Slings and Arrows
That is for d*mn sure.
Amen.
Get Ryan out front and center. Now.
To: neverdem
Why gripe? You want Obama for four more years? Just get out the vote, clowns.
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posted on
09/24/2012 7:14:49 PM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(The first priority is get Obama out of the White House.)
To: neverdem
The tea party movementonce again proving its pragmatism once the general election season rolls aroundlined up in the immediate aftermath of the Paul Ryan pick and has proven they can grow up. Isn't it grand how folks who want others to do something find them particularly insightful and 'grown up' when they capitulate and do it?
Backing Romney isn't my idea of growing up. It's my idea of selling out because you have very little alternative.
Yeah sure, they're grown up, and have resigned themselves to seeing Romney dissect their nation rather than Obama.
I'm certainly not going to trash them for it. I'm certainly not going to congratulate them for it either. This is something none of us are going to be proud of.
Taking out Obama is going to be grand, but then reality sets in. My God, what a reality.
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posted on
09/24/2012 7:16:26 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Imagine how bad these global protests would be, if Obama hadn't won us so many new friends.)
To: Slings and Arrows
bingo
four more years they can take
four more Conservatives, no so much
four less Conservatives, “WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...”
“Just shut up and do what we tell ya.”
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posted on
09/24/2012 7:18:58 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Imagine how bad these global protests would be, if Obama hadn't won us so many new friends.)
To: neverdem
With a wink and a nod the elitist, establishment Republicans sold us Romney like a cheap chord of wood.... what it really amounted to was it was Romney’s turn to run and no outsiders were welcome.
I’ve for a long time felt that Romney doesn’t even really want to win. He won’t take it to the Mau-Mau where it will really do some damage.
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posted on
09/24/2012 7:20:01 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(Barry's not fit to shine the shoes of a REAL President.)
To: Slings and Arrows
That is the gospel truth!
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posted on
09/24/2012 7:22:32 PM PDT
by
katiedidit1
(Constitutionalist..period)
To: DoughtyOne
I'm certainly not going to trash them for it. I'm certainly not going to congratulate them for it either. This is something none of us are going to be proud of. Kobayashi Maru.
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posted on
09/24/2012 7:24:42 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(Conservatism didn't magically show up in Romney's heart in 2012. You can't force what isn't in you.)
To: Cringing Negativism Network; DoughtyOne; katiedidit1
“The purpose of power is power.”
—George Orwell, *1984*
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posted on
09/24/2012 7:25:06 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: neverdem
After Foisting Romney on Base, GOP Elites Now Start to Gripe
To: neverdem
To: neverdem
Those GOPe s must have a lot of power. They must have hypnotized the primary voters. There were primaries weren’t there? Was any more conservative candidate denied the opportunity to run? Isn’t it time to stop the mantra about RINOs and GOPe s and admit that Cassius was right all along?
To: neverdem
G*d I'm sick of the GOPe's chattering classes.
Lead or get the hell out of the way.
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posted on
09/24/2012 7:28:08 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: xkaydet65
According to the article its the GOPe’s that are bitching, not conservatives.
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posted on
09/24/2012 7:30:07 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; Gilbo_3; NFHale; Impy; Pan_Yans Wife; ...
RE :”
For the past several weeks, Mitt Romney has been surrounded by critics from the DC-Manhattan elite whove denounced him for a lackluster, unfocused campaign, teeing off on Team Romney in the wake of the 47 percent comments for a number of issuesbut mostly, in my read, from failing to take their advice. Romneys defenders, meanwhile, have been many of the same individuals who spent the primary season torching him in effigy as the encapsulation of everything they hate about the Republican ruling class. For months the elites bashed the base for failing to suck it up and see the big picture, to line up for Romney and come on in for the big win. But they got their wish! “
????
1) The RINO elites got who they wanted, Romney, so why are they surprised by him?
2) Those who didn't like him before who apparently do now see something in him that has changed for the positive?
Or is it just proof that the RNC can put up anybody? Or just not wanting to be on the same page: "If they don't like him anymore then we are gonna(like him instead)"
I swear this below link reminds me of 2008, you know what I mean?
Conservatives Want to Unleash Paul Ryan Silobreaker.com ^ | September 24, 2012
This sounds like the prep for' Ryan for 2016' threads to start being posted come January. It is just too familiar.
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posted on
09/24/2012 7:31:07 PM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(Romney is still a liberal. Just watch him. (Obama-ney Care ))
To: skeeter
Bottom line is to defeat lib asshats...this must be done for several election cycles.
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posted on
09/24/2012 7:31:20 PM PDT
by
ogen hal
(First amendment or reeducation camp?)
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