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The Biggest Lesson the GOP Should Learn from the Election
PJ Media ^ | 12-1-2012 | Frank J. Fleming

Posted on 12/01/2012 12:07:46 PM PST by smoothsailing

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1 posted on 12/01/2012 12:07:51 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Sounds like the old Governor Romney would be perfect.

lol.


2 posted on 12/01/2012 12:14:51 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: smoothsailing

LOL! I like this guy. He uses the very effective Rush technique of illustrating absurdity by being absurd to the extreme.


3 posted on 12/01/2012 12:17:08 PM PST by winner3000
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To: smoothsailing

I sense .. a bit of sarcasm...


4 posted on 12/01/2012 12:17:29 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: smoothsailing

LOL! I like this guy. He uses the very effective Rush technique of illustrating absurdity by being absurd to the extreme.


5 posted on 12/01/2012 12:17:29 PM PST by winner3000
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To: smoothsailing

Nah, it doesn’t have to be that stupid. All the GOP has to do in bring back the middle class jobs that they exported. Then a prosperous middle class will be working again, paying taxes and buying things and voting for the GOP again like they did for Reagan and the two Bushs.

The GOP has to get successful the old-fashioned way - they got to earn it. Running under the banner ‘I know how to create jobs’ is woefully inadequate. Just do it.


6 posted on 12/01/2012 12:27:28 PM PST by ex-snook (without forgiveness there is no Christianity)
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To: smoothsailing

And the super squish should thoroughly diss all of Ron Paul’s ideas as well as the TEA party, not just throw them under the bus at the convention. Yea that’ll do it.


7 posted on 12/01/2012 12:28:03 PM PST by MulberryDraw (That which cannot be paid, won't be paid.)
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To: smoothsailing

The lesson learned is;...... VOTING DIED NOV. 6TH..

Voting for anybody for anything is a ruse if you are republican..
Voting just became “bait and switch”... and/or “the Glad Game”...


8 posted on 12/01/2012 12:28:03 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: smoothsailing

I kind of like Palin/West in 2016.


9 posted on 12/01/2012 12:33:13 PM PST by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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To: smoothsailing

Biggest lesson is that if you don’t cheat more than the democrats you will lose!


10 posted on 12/01/2012 12:39:39 PM PST by dalereed
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To: smoothsailing

“The Biggest Lesson the GOP Should Learn from the Election”

Making rigged elections an art form?


11 posted on 12/01/2012 12:43:07 PM PST by NKP_Vet
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To: smoothsailing
Say what you will, Romney turned out the base - big time. He got a record number of evangelical votes, 26.0M. That's more than McCain's 25.3M and Bush's 21.9M.

We were 4.5M votes short this year. How do we get the 5M+ we're going to need in 2016?

12 posted on 12/01/2012 12:55:16 PM PST by Ken H
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To: ex-snook

Nah, it doesn’t have to be that stupid. All the GOP has to do in bring back the middle class jobs that they exported. Then a prosperous middle class will be working again, paying taxes and buying things and voting for the GOP again like they did for Reagan and the two Bushs.

The GOP has to get successful the old-fashioned way - they got to earn it. Running under the banner ‘I know how to create jobs’ is woefully inadequate. Just do it.


Right. The GOP needs to dump the Free Trade Communist Globalism nonsense. You cannot create job in the United States of America by shipping American jobs to Communist China. All the cute economic theory cannot over-ride this Economic Fact

Free Trade Communist Globalism does not work.

Unfortnately, Liberals have figured this out...and why you see Obama in this country use Welfare and Socialism to offset Free Trade.

You cannot beat a Socialist like Obama with Free Trade Communism. You need ideas and efforts that actually create jobs other than fast-food jobs


13 posted on 12/01/2012 1:09:00 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (Illegal Aliens do not pay Social Security...Employers do)
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To: smoothsailing

We also need to nominate candidates that can keep their mouths closed and not blurt out dumb comments. We know from Allen in 2006, Atkin and Mourdock in 2012 that the MSM will make mountains out of mold hills.
And as many people on this site have said-Democrats play to win, we play to be nice. Absolutely do not trust the MSM.
And read “Rules for Radicals.” The Rats have and it is part of their playbook. It needs to be part of ours.
If not it will be the Social Democrats going up against the Bolsheviks in 1917 and 1918.


14 posted on 12/01/2012 1:19:55 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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We also need to nominate candidates that can keep their mouths closed and not blurt out dumb comments. We know from Allen in 2006, Atkin and Mourdock in 2012 that the MSM will make mountains out of mold hills.

Don't forget Christine O'Donnell in DE back in '08. There was some kind of stupid comment about being a witch or witchcraft and she spent the rest of the campaign fending off the media and the 'Rats about that. What kind of dope allows themselves to get put off-message with that kind of crap? I know O'Donnell is a Tea Party darling, but, I'm sorry, stupid is stupid. Our candidates are right on the issues, but if they say STUPID things in the middle of a campaign and hand their opponents a sword to be run through with, well, it isn't very smart from a political tactics viewpoint.

15 posted on 12/01/2012 1:27:24 PM PST by chimera
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Yes, you said it better that I did.

STAY ON MESSAGE!! But also don’t be afraid to fight back.


16 posted on 12/01/2012 1:29:30 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: Ken H

Given population growth, he actually ensured evangelical share declined...

Romney was a terrible candidate, but true to form, we have people defending this article.


17 posted on 12/01/2012 1:32:18 PM PST by JCBreckenridge (They may take our lives... but they'll never take our FREEDOM!)
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We also need republicans who actually believe that prolife does not equal dumb. Sorta like not you. :)


18 posted on 12/01/2012 1:33:37 PM PST by JCBreckenridge (They may take our lives... but they'll never take our FREEDOM!)
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BTW - Christine did better than any Republican candidate in DE since Roth.

We need more candidates like Christine - passionate, prolife and conservative. We also need the party to actually support them and stand up for them rather then abandon them to the wolves like the GOP did with Christine, like they did with Palin, etc.


19 posted on 12/01/2012 1:36:11 PM PST by JCBreckenridge (They may take our lives... but they'll never take our FREEDOM!)
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Given population growth, he actually ensured evangelical share declined...

I don't understand. Evangelicals are not increasing their share of potential voters compared to other groups. Yet they managed to be 26% of the electorate in 2012 vs 23% in 2004. They supported Romney at 78%, equaling Bush's level.

Explain your point.

20 posted on 12/01/2012 1:40:50 PM PST by Ken H
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