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The Republicans Have Failed the Nation
RedState ^ | December 13th, 2012 | Erick Erickson

Posted on 12/13/2012 2:15:52 PM PST by neverdem

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1 posted on 12/13/2012 2:16:01 PM PST by neverdem
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2 posted on 12/13/2012 2:22:18 PM PST by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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To: neverdem
We knew what to expect from the soulless greedbag democrats.

Its the GOPe I'm really p*ssed at... they abandoned the parapets, threw the bolt off the gate and then turned on the people who had hired them to make a principled stand.

Rodents.

3 posted on 12/13/2012 2:26:41 PM PST by skeeter
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The GOP defined itself by nominating a man who stood for everything that they are against, from romneycare, to abortion, to gay marriage and guns, even down to the details of despising Reagan and conservatism in general, and being an actual cult leader in an anti-Christian cult.

A man who having left the republican party during the Reagan era, came to support, fund raise, and vote for democrats.

A man who snubbed 2008’s veep, the tea party, and social conservatism when he restated his support for homosexuals in the military, homosexual Scout leaders, and came out against the pro-life party platform, a man who actually spent the years of his presidential campaigning, trying to create the myth of Reagan having been “adamantly pro-choice”

The Republicans defined themselves.


4 posted on 12/13/2012 2:31:44 PM PST by ansel12 (A.Coulter2005(truncated)Romney will never recover from his Court's create of a right to gay marriage)
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To: skeeter

Principled stands are fine. Food for thought though, a grand bargain last year as compared to what we are going to get this time. Which do you think would have been better?


5 posted on 12/13/2012 2:31:44 PM PST by chopperjc
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To: neverdem

Good article. Thanks for posting.

One can’t help but wonder if there are merely two aspects to a single party - the Ruling/Government/Washington Party: with the one sub-party nominally different so as to act as a foil for the other and to corruptly throw the fight for the other.

Both ultimately favor big government, progressivism at slightly different rates, and handing over our sovereignty to globalists. Both favor Marxism to varying degrees. Both trample on the Constitution. Neither are our friend, and in fact both have now declared us enemies.

Madison’s grand experiment is over without another revolution. Everything else is merely sound and fury, signifying nothing.


6 posted on 12/13/2012 2:36:34 PM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: chopperjc

If the GOPe had made a principled stand last year we’d be dealing with a lame duck president this year.


7 posted on 12/13/2012 2:37:42 PM PST by skeeter
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To: neverdem

Just as the Japanese could not fail Pearl harbor on December 7, 1941, today’s democrats cannot fail America. The GOP, however, is like Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel - asleep on the job and failing the people of our country.


8 posted on 12/13/2012 2:40:04 PM PST by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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Just as the Japanese could not fail Pearl harbor on December 7, 1941, today’s democrats cannot fail America. The GOP, however, is like Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel - asleep on the job and failing the people of our country.


9 posted on 12/13/2012 2:41:07 PM PST by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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Romney was obviously a loser, in a race that couldn’t be lost, now you have a broken, confused, directionless party that isn’t even sure what it’s politics are anymore, perhaps forever ruined by that disastrous choice of a democrat in all but name, your plan didn’t work out, or did it?


10 posted on 12/13/2012 2:41:24 PM PST by ansel12 (A.Coulter2005(truncated)Romney will never recover from his Court's create of a right to gay marriage)
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The GOP, however, is like Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel - asleep on the job and failing the people of our country.

I wish the GOPe were merely caught napping. Instead they're negotiating the number of battleships they should lose.

11 posted on 12/13/2012 2:44:48 PM PST by skeeter
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I wish the GOPe were merely caught napping. Instead they're negotiating the number of battleships they should lose.

They probably think Kimmel should have done that. Think how much better it would have been to only sink the USS Arizona but keep the Oklahoma, to suffer heavy damage to the West Virginia, the Nevada, and the Maryland, but to keep the California, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee intact. The GOP might even have given up a couple of carriers for that deal, and called it a victory for American conservative patriotism.

12 posted on 12/13/2012 2:56:17 PM PST by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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One can’t help but wonder if there are merely two aspects to a single party

If you are merely wondering, you are about 12-20 years behind the curve.

13 posted on 12/13/2012 2:59:29 PM PST by Lazamataz (LAZ'S LAW: As an argument with liberals goes on, the probability of being called racist approaches 1)
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To: ansel12
The Republicans defined themselves.

All your points make this conclusion rock solid.

The GOP-E RINOs are what the Jews call Kapos.

14 posted on 12/13/2012 3:02:54 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: ansel12
The Republicans defined themselves.

Heck, they defiled themselves. But Romney LOST, which is actually the most heartening thing "Republican" in a long time -- it means conservative and Republican Americans are smarter than the GOPe thought.

Obama is a skinny fraud who needed a lot of vote ginning and shenanigans to win. HE IS VULNERABLE. He and the liberals who support him are the little dog in America, WE Americans who cherish our right to self-determination and freedom from nanny state government, outnumber them in every way except in celebrities and Talking Heads in the MSM. This is a case of a little 10-lb yapper dog getting away with bossing around the 60-lb setter, because the setter hasn't figured out yet how much bigger he really is. But WHEN THAT CHANGES, when conservatives and Republicans and Americans who despise the liberal bias of the MSM, liberalism, and Obama, realize that they're BIGGER and assume the Alpha role instead of the whimpering beta-dog role the GOPe takes now -- we will reclaim a nation that is moral and prosperous in liberty.

15 posted on 12/13/2012 3:03:17 PM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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The GOPe knows the other side is at war, whats more they have no intention of trying to stop them.

Because they're drooling at the prospect of all that new 'revenue' themselves.

Its all theater - boob bait for bubba.

16 posted on 12/13/2012 3:04:27 PM PST by skeeter
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To: neverdem

The purpose of government is to increase government.

That’s their bottom line.

Hence, not a damn dime’s worth of difference between Republicans and Rats.


17 posted on 12/13/2012 3:05:08 PM PST by onona (Former Plattsburgh AFB Survivor)
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To: TheBattman

The Nation has failed the Nation

A country gets the Government it deserves


18 posted on 12/13/2012 3:23:05 PM PST by PGR88
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To: neverdem

The republican party is DEAD.....
(taps)


19 posted on 12/13/2012 3:34:09 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: ansel12

Fine words and all, but what do you propose to do about it?

It’s not like people like me—26 years old, almost no money, no job, barely scraping up $100 per week, crushing debt, only have a computer because it’s how I earn what little money I can—can buy guns, ammo, and food to stockpile for the oncoming crash, like so many people are gleefully saying they’ll do.

And all the ‘I-told-you-so’s in the world aren’t going to fill the stomach of myself or my family.

So what do I do now?


20 posted on 12/13/2012 3:34:44 PM PST by Luircin
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