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The Tea Party Got It Right, Mitt Got It Wrong
FrontPage Magazine ^ | November 7, 2012 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 11/07/2012 5:32:07 AM PST by SJackson

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To: soycd

I agree. Idiots like these two should have been yanked from the race when they opened their stupid mouths as they did. Chris Christie needs to be crushed for the damage he did, and all because he didn’t get Romney’s nod for Vice-President.


81 posted on 11/07/2012 6:49:45 AM PST by itssme
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To: FrankR

The Tea Party was dead the moment it was taken over by social conservatives and people like Palin, Glen Beck & Hannity.


82 posted on 11/07/2012 6:50:34 AM PST by JeffAtlanta
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To: SJackson

Great points! Be angry and sin not says the bible...that unresentful righteous indignation. Really too bad Romney did not have it...too nice. Gingrich had it and that is why I voted for him. God save us now because our foreign enemies will really be emboldened now.


83 posted on 11/07/2012 6:50:58 AM PST by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter"you min)
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To: TBP

We need effective conservatives, with political savvy, and they are in short supply.

The fact is, most so-called “Conservative politicians” don’t truly believe in conservatism, they play the role they think gives them the best chance to get elected.


84 posted on 11/07/2012 6:51:30 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: soycd

Bingo - the Akins and Mourdocks are a disgrace and simply DUMB.

Yes - some of these precious socons are FNG DUMB!

they don’t know how utterly stupid they come across with their nonsense. Learn how to sell the message or STFU.

These idiots are like bulls in a china shop.


85 posted on 11/07/2012 6:51:39 AM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: 1rudeboy

Yes, and The PRESS is now going to have to report the decline as it happens and they will be caught in deceit. “Recovery Summer”, still waiting...


86 posted on 11/07/2012 6:52:07 AM PST by Son House (Romney Plan: Cap Spending At 20 Percent Of GDP.)
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To: IrishBrigade
obama just had one of the biggest voter dropoffs in history and you imagine people are satisfied with him?

He's a loser who was fortunate enough to have a stuffed shirt run against him.

Such is life.

I had an epiphany early last Spring when it was obvious this was a RACE TO THE BOTTOM with two unpopular candidates. The normal ways of evaluating relative strength would fail us ~ and they did. Romney's backers could have saved a billion dollars if they'd taken a step back and said to themselves "But is he likeable"?

87 posted on 11/07/2012 6:52:39 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: JeffAtlanta

Amen. The Tea Party was stabbed in the back by Romney and it’s lifeless corpse was paraded around by the likes of Limbaugh and Hannity in a grotesque mockery.


88 posted on 11/07/2012 6:54:10 AM PST by delapaz
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To: ilgipper

I think Mitt did everything right EXCEPT articulate HIS plan. We hammered Obama good on the economy.
If the Republicans have any hope of getting back n the White House, they will have to create a voting plan that limits voter fraud. The Democrats can just store up a bunch of cash and pay the Precincts for the votes. The UN guys were right. It’s too easy to cheat.


89 posted on 11/07/2012 6:54:37 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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To: flushed with pride

Great question; simple answer, the power brokers of the GOP could care less; they got theirs and they profit coming or going. Their only real interest is in continuing to syphon off fat profits via K Street lobbyists and their interconnect with the gov’t. That’s why their focus is not on the White House, but rather, on Congress. They knew Mitt was a loser, but paid him handsomely to play the game.


90 posted on 11/07/2012 6:54:46 AM PST by Rich21IE
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To: Strategerist

Those two “tea” candidates were hardly classics of the tea party. And those two probably did enough damage at critical moments with unskilled mouths to lose the election and the senate for us. For all the noise, TEA was organized around resistance to the TARP and Obamacare. Even the name, “Taxed Enough Already”.
So a week before the repub convention, one of them says the most idiotic thing about womens bodies being able to prevent rape pregnancy that most people have ever heard. He breathes new credible life into the “war on women” lie.
And with us barely surviving that, his buddy wades into wacky rape opinions a few days before the debates begin.

Those two lost their way from the TEA economic message. And their hard-headed stupidity ensured that the psychopathic killer of babies delivered alive will get another term, and will give us a 6-3 court.
Their unskilled approach to how to attack abortion has solidified the most pro-abortion candidate imaginable.


91 posted on 11/07/2012 6:56:02 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: factmart

So true what you said about the kids under 40. This is why the communists running our public schools have been indoctrinating the kids for the past 30 years: Now we have a whole new demographic of adults running around who will vote for anything communist. I noticed this change around the late 70s early 80s when I finished up my education. In my classes you still had teachers/Professors from the 1950s, very Republican and Conservatives, but by around 1981 I noticed they were being replaced by the radicals, the commies, leftists. And around the mid 80s they were all replaced as the last retired so what you were left with was the Bill Ayers the Ward Churchills, and this crap they teach has been going on ever since. So now you got an avowed commie like Barack Obama easily winning the office of POTUS. That would have been impossible 30 years ago, and not because of his race. Well, these kids who are now adults are going to learn the hard way what communism does. Let them ignore the history books all they want - When the hard cold reality of it smashes them in the face I will be front and center telling them to go F themselves.


92 posted on 11/07/2012 6:56:47 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: SJackson

This is what happens when you pick the electable candidate.


93 posted on 11/07/2012 6:57:36 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: SJackson

The Tea Party?

The Republican insiders and the party well connected nurtured the Tea party. It became a talk show joke. This is what they wanted.


94 posted on 11/07/2012 6:58:28 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Son House
Oh, bullcrap. (Not directed at you, personally).

I can see the headline now: Unemployment situation worse than previously thought.

Followed of course by, "The Obama Administration today proposed a new...."

95 posted on 11/07/2012 6:59:16 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: SJackson

The 2010 freshman Tea Party class got their collective a$$es kicked this time.


96 posted on 11/07/2012 7:00:13 AM PST by stylin19a (Obama ->The Jayson Blair administration)
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To: dragnet2

The Tea Party?

The Republican insiders and the party well connected *neutered* the Tea party. It became a talk show joke. This is what they wanted.


97 posted on 11/07/2012 7:00:12 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

until we get our moral house in order our fiscal house never will be

the only thing that could be done would be to get back to church and live the commandments and get back our schools from the state ... I fear it is too late

How many Americans go to church on Sunday (every Sunday?)
Thou shall not steal ( the whole welfare system and illegal immigration is theft)
Thou shall not kill ( millions and millions of dead babies)

love the lord God with you whole heart soul and mind.... the majority of americans love only themselves


98 posted on 11/07/2012 7:01:10 AM PST by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: DesertRhino
Those two “tea” candidates were hardly classics of the tea party. And those two probably did enough damage at critical moments with unskilled mouths to lose the election and the senate for us. For all the noise, TEA was organized around resistance to the TARP and Obamacare. Even the name, “Taxed Enough Already”. The TEA party ceased being about economics long ago. Fiscal conservatives and libertartians abandonned it after it was taken over by Beck, Palin & Hannity.
99 posted on 11/07/2012 7:03:04 AM PST by JeffAtlanta
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To: Mr. K
Sure occasionaly you grab a fumble and run it into the end zone, but that is not a winning strategy to make it to the Superbowl.

Actually, my Chicago Bears made it to the Super Bowl in the 2006 season doing exactly that.

And then got blown out by Peyton Manning.

100 posted on 11/07/2012 7:03:20 AM PST by Thane_Banquo
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