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Rand Paul forces suffer setback vs. GOP establishment
Politico ^ | 4/12/13 | JAMES HOHMANN

Posted on 04/13/2013 6:05:27 AM PDT by Bratch

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To: Java4Jay
The rule changes were the last straw for me... If the GOP had worked with the libertarians Obama would have been defeated. Screw you GOP!

When I heard that Romney and Company changed the rules, I knew that it was the E-GOP at work. They screwed the Tea Parties and the libertarians enough to keep a bunch of them home on election day.

21 posted on 04/13/2013 7:33:13 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Cyprus - the beginning)
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To: Bratch
FURNC and the GOPe elephant you rode in on. Can "they" be fixed in time to fix the nation or can you fix the nation by first fixing the GOP and creating a two party system?

Or is it just simply too late:

Consent decree from 1982 prohibits the RNC from combatting vote fraud

Why the GOP won’t challenge vote fraud

RNC/DNC sign consent decree to not investigate widespread voter fraud

22 posted on 04/13/2013 7:35:43 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: GBA
It is sad to watch the Republican Party commit political suicide. Conservatives are beginning to realize that no conservative will ever be a Republican leader or nominee.
Mad John McCain was so crazy that he chose Governor Palin as his running mate before the rest of the mainstream Republican operatives could stop him. He recovered quickly and had his staff undermine her for the rest of his bungled campaign and thereafter.
Senator Paul will not be a Republican nominee or Senate leader.
Senator Cruz will not be a Republican nominee or Senate
leader.
Never.
By fixing the rules, the Republicans guarantee another Democrat victory, whoever is the next Democrat nominee.
TWB
23 posted on 04/13/2013 8:14:23 AM PDT by TWhiteBear (Sarah Palin...The Flame of the North)
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To: The Wizard

My first vote for president was for Barry Goldwater. I then voted for Nixon over Kennedy and Nixon again over Humphrey. I say this to establish that this “ain’t my first rodeo.”

My first Republican National convention was in Miami Beach, 1972, when Nixon was nominated for reelection. Several more followed, including the one in Detroit where that river I referred to in a previous post coughed up on shore the finest president of our lifetimes, Ronald Reagan.

So, I think I am qualified by both age and experience to urge patience and understanding. Politics is not like farming or any other enterprise.


24 posted on 04/13/2013 8:28:50 AM PDT by billhilly
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To: billhilly

Don’t count on any kind of serious conservative turnout next election. It ain’t gonna happen with these Republican ‘leaders.’


25 posted on 04/13/2013 8:36:13 AM PDT by AdaGray
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To: Bratch

Unlike McCain 2008 and Romney 2012, if it’s Jeb Bush in 2016 - I am staying home and not contribute to RINO FAIL Part III. Don’t bother telling me the same old horse shit about the lesser of two evils. We are already past the American experiment, the future does not look pretty.


26 posted on 04/13/2013 8:37:59 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: AdaGray

If your political universe is no larger than FreeRepublic you are deluding yourself.


27 posted on 04/13/2013 9:29:29 AM PDT by billhilly
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To: billhilly

The republicans just lost an election that they couldn’t lose against Jimmy Carter the second, by running a guy who doesn’t even belong in republican politics at all.

Your smug comfort level with the disastrous path of the GOP is the path to total irrelevancy for the party.


28 posted on 04/13/2013 11:21:46 AM PDT by ansel12 (The lefts most effective quote-I'm libertarian on social issues, but conservative on economics.)
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To: ansel12

The fact is, we did lose one to Jimmie Carter, and we got over that too. Cradle yourself in the prevailing blind anger at your own party and watch the left that you so despise continue to take away what is left of the country.


29 posted on 04/13/2013 1:31:16 PM PDT by billhilly
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To: billhilly

Huh? You don’t know the difference between the Watergate contaminated unelected veep of Nixon losing to what appeared to be a social conservative Southern Governor, and losing to a second term Jimmy Carter?

No wonder you think that you voted for Nixon against Kennedy after voting for Goldwater for president.

You really are so devoted to your party that you have no concept of how it’s accelerated war against conservatives is destroying it, Romney’s shocking loss in an election that the GOP couldn’t lose, and his disastrous effect down ticket, should be opening your eyes, not have you wallowing in complacency and even more hostility towards conservatives and conservatism and calling an attempt to save conservatism, “blind anger”, break out of your complacency and blindness and strive for improvement and repair.


30 posted on 04/13/2013 2:17:19 PM PDT by ansel12 (The lefts most effective quote-I'm libertarian on social issues, but conservative on economics.)
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To: ansel12

Thanks for your reminder that I first voted for Nixon against Kennedy in 1960, then Goldwater against Johnson in 64. Google is a wonderful thing. And yes, I do remember President Ford but not as you do. I actually knew the man. I was also at the Republican convention in Kansas City where he was nominated. So, big shot, go on with your bitterness and leave the real lifting to your betters.


31 posted on 04/13/2013 4:03:42 PM PDT by billhilly
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To: billhilly

The only thing you seem to be able to ‘lift’ is the lid on the septic tank.


32 posted on 04/13/2013 4:17:17 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: billhilly

Google? You need to google to see who you were voting for in presidential elections and to learn who was running? No wonder you seem so nasty and angry and bitter, your mind is slipping.

It is also no wonder that you seem so fond of the pro-abortion Ford, I’m not surprised that you were supporting him in Kansas City as Reagan came so close to defeating him, today you are still ranting against the Reagan wing.


33 posted on 04/13/2013 4:22:06 PM PDT by ansel12 (The lefts most effective quote-I'm libertarian on social issues, but conservative on economics.)
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To: Bratch

I guess the GOP really doesn’t want to win the WH!


34 posted on 04/13/2013 5:09:39 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: billhilly

Nice try. My political universe ranges from having once been an elected Democrat official to becoming a Republican and now a Conservative. I get my information from the most intellectually honest sources I can find and brook no opposition when it comes to appeasers.


35 posted on 04/16/2013 4:37:57 PM PDT by AdaGray
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To: billhilly

What are you doing here? Trolling?


36 posted on 04/16/2013 4:42:41 PM PDT by AdaGray
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