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Party Wages War on GOP Voters
Townhall.com ^ | January 14, 2013 | Mark Baisley

Posted on 01/14/2013 5:51:29 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: onona

No, it isn’t. We’ve been sending that message to the Party for years...only a few have listened.

I want to switch my registration in Independent..but Pennsylvania has closed primaries...and that’s the last place I have a chance to make a vote count. And it has served me well for sending campaign contributions.

If my candidate doesn’t get the nod, I stop contributing right then and there. I’m keeping my options open for the time being...just in case there’s a special election and/or for 2014.


21 posted on 01/14/2013 7:51:11 AM PST by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: Kaslin
I read a great article by Sheriff Jim R. Schwiesow, Ret. written February 4, 2011 from "NewsWithViews.com" and here's part of it.

Take a good long look at where "Establishment Republicans" ALWAYS take us.




22 posted on 01/14/2013 7:56:41 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: TomGuy

“Of course, maybe the voters ARE understanding their message.”

The message with Romney was - pro-abortion, pro-gay marrage, pro-nationalized health care, anti-gun, bigger government. Lots of folks on this forum tried to tell the establishment voters among us that this was unacceptable, but were roundly insulted and dismissed as supporting Obama. We understood the Republican message just fine. Maybe it was the Romney supporters who did not understand what they were voting for.


23 posted on 01/14/2013 9:00:49 AM PST by Owl558 ("Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him")
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To: Kaslin
Registered Republicans who chose to not vote at all.

I'm a registered Republican who voted in every race in which a conservative was running - so I left the presidential boxes blank. Did I get counted in the "chose to not vote at all" category, I wonder?

24 posted on 01/14/2013 9:11:36 AM PST by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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To: cripplecreek

Romney, Lodge, Scranton—seems like we never can get rid of these losers.


25 posted on 01/14/2013 9:21:25 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Kaslin

No voter ID required, massive increase in absentee voter ballot submissions, electronic voting machines and electronic vote counting machines programmable to desired out come, more votes in precincts than registered voters.......... How can anyone honestly claim that the 2012 post election voter data supports the outcome? Why aren’t these same folks researching and reporting on the OBVOUIS real problem of vote fraud? Why aren’t the conservative leaders in DC and around the country voicing concern about the massive vote fraud? Corruption rules the US. The silent mantra known to all politicians, judges and reporters in the US today; Keep your mouth shut and stay healthy.


26 posted on 01/14/2013 9:53:34 AM PST by drypowder
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To: Kaslin

Romney lost the election the day his idiot No. 2 man Eric Fehrnstrom said after the primaries “Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again.”

No denials from Romney; no firing the moron.

So from that point forward in the campaign, many of the high-information Republican voters said “What the hell - Romney is going to be just like the other RINOs. You can’t believe anything he will say”.

Not that the loss bothered Fehrnstrom: his consultant company was paid $millions by the Romney campaign - that’s the checks you folks sent in thinking it would beat Obama.


27 posted on 01/14/2013 11:50:20 AM PST by oldbill
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To: TomGuy
The Republicans have a communication problem. They just can’t seem to get their message across to voters.

On the night Clint Eastwood gave his speech to the Republican convention supporting Mitt Romney, and the GOP ran a 30-minute video about Romney "introducing" him to the voters, TIME magazine talking head Mark Halperin ( son of Pentagon Papers traitor Morton Halperin) went on both Gwen Ifill's PBS convention-coverage show and Charlie Rose an hour and a half later (or so) to belittle Eastwood's "empty chair" speech as a "Bayonne supper club routine" and to make a couple of confident predictions.

One, said Halperin, the public would never see either the GOP video or Eastwood's speech; the Media would see to it. The major networks had trimmed convention coverage to exclude them, and the voters would see only Romney's bare acceptance speech, shorn of its context.

Next, he said, any message put out by the GOP or Romney would be "spun and refracted" through a host of prisms and Media "takes" into jumbled incoherence. No clear message, and no crisply-articulated message would reach the voters from the Republican Party.

Think about that one -- he was right, the JournoListers made it happen.

Voters still perceive them as the party of big business and the wealthy.

How's that possible, after TARP, the repeal of Glass-Steagall, and years of Bush-family-modulated access capitalism? < /s >

28 posted on 01/14/2013 12:15:14 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: Kaslin

an organized, well-funded and concerted effort by Washington Republican insiders to circle the wagons around incumbents who may see primary challenges.
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well they can cirle the hand carts all they want but it was not the fault of the “GOP voters” in Nov 2012 anymore than it would be the fault of the voters in 2014 if the GOP try to force unsavory nominees on us again...

Willard was not the right guy to run in 2012 nor would any GOP inside liberal be in 2014..

Willard was and is for abortion, gay marriage, AMNESTY, big government, Cap N Trade, global warming and disrespected our troops..

We need a Conservative..a real one...

not a guy who plays one badly on TV...

you want our votes in 2014 ???

well give us someone to vote for...

this is still America...

we still have the right to choose...


29 posted on 01/14/2013 12:20:01 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: SharpRightTurn
Romney, Lodge, Scranton—seems like we never can get rid of these losers.

Willkie, Dewey, Stassen, Dole
Pubbie RiNO's sure get old.
Give me Sarah and her gun;
She'll go up there and git 'er done.
Burma Shave.

30 posted on 01/14/2013 12:20:45 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: TomGuy
I see a pattern. Maybe, running a political campaign should left to the professional political campaign advisors.

Like Karl Rove. And Ed Rollins.

Oh, yeah. Right. Thanks for that.

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31 posted on 01/14/2013 12:23:07 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: Yosemitest
Why do RiNO "official portraits" always look like they were shot for a funeral-home ad?
32 posted on 01/14/2013 12:29:18 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: brownsfan
Obama is going to trash America anyway, why elect some Republicans simply so they can be the foil? (And get wealthy in the process).

Well, there you put your finger on it right at the end.

Barky works for the GOP as a scarecrow. Big scary Barky and Bill Ayers's death squads scare all sorts of money out of frightened businessmen, which rains on all sorts of outstreched RiNO palms -- lobbyists, attorneys, politicians, "professional campaign consultants".

33 posted on 01/14/2013 2:41:36 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: IamConservative
The new Liberty (or Freedom) party should also make the media impotent by not listening. The media only has power when we listen, care and react to what they say.

Actually, third parties are too easy for the media to ignore, which was part of their strategy last summer. They shut out Clint Eastwood and the Romney video which was very well done and could have drawn a lot of independents -- they saw to it that those assets were never seen by the People. How do I know that? One of the Mediabots, Mark Halperin (chief political correspondent for TIME and son of Pentagon Papers traitor Morton Halperin -- he's not just some yayhoo with a 15-newspaper byline) said so. He said it on Charlie Rose, where all the heavy hitters go to talk to the public. Presidents and prime ministers want to see Charlie -- he's already interviewed a President or two (he interviewed Associate Justice Antonin Scalia a few weeks ago), and one day I'm sure he'll get the ultimate interviews: Queen Elizabeth and the Pope.

But Halperin told Charlie Rose the Media would make sure those assets -- the Clint Eastwood "empty chair" speech and the Romney campaign video -- would never be seen by the People, and he was right. Like the man said, it ain't bragging if you can do it, and he and his co-conspirators in Media saw to it.

So if they could do that to a major party and its candidate, what kind of quick work do you think they'd make of a new party?

34 posted on 01/14/2013 3:08:21 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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