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Opinion Patrick Buchanan: How The GOP Lost Middle America – OpEd
The Albany Tribune ^ | January 30, 2014 | Patrick J Buchanan

Posted on 01/31/2014 4:11:14 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo

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To: Hostage

Agenda 21 is working just fine and both the GOP and Dims like it that way.


41 posted on 01/31/2014 10:59:24 AM PST by B4Ranch (Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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To: ek_hornbeck

“You really can’t blame the government of a nation for wanting to dump its surplus undesirable riffraff off on somebody else”

So true. Mexico does not want to have to reform their corrupt political, law enforcement and judicial system. They don’t want to have to create jobs for their own people.


42 posted on 01/31/2014 11:14:33 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: ek_hornbeck

Mexico only opens the Northern Border. In the south they shoot Guatemalans.


43 posted on 01/31/2014 12:18:58 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Pelham
Thanks to the Republican Party, Corporate America got it all.

This is the nexus of the GOP, who IMNVHO, are responsible for the decayed state of the Republic. In the 1950's if not earlier, the GOP ideology gave way to an acceptance of the Democraty Party as the usual default majority party. The GOP has degenerated from the party that saved the Union and freed the slaves into a very dependably loyal sham "opposition."

In exchange for safely gerrymandered seats, the GOP cheerfully traded its place as the party of Main St. and increasingly became the Party of Wall Street. In those brief interludes when the GOP has Congressional majorities, they become confused and cynical at the same time, cooperating with the Democrats to spend the Republic into oblivion.

Safe seats means the GOP are free to work with lobbyists and fat-cat contributors, simultaneously reaching across the aisle to divvy up the pork with the Democrats in exchange for their complaisant voting. The only present reason for the existence of the GOP: to protect massive corporate givers from the outrages of the bureaucracy which runs the lives of the rest of us. I.E., the bureaucracy (and the lobbyists) who write the so-called "laws" that are the shameful product of Congress.

Safe seats means that the GOP establishment ... our RINOS ... are largely immune to any of the consequences of their actions. The RNC finances them to wins in their primaries and the constituency take the hindmost.

Result: E.G., Boehner. McConnell. Graham. Snow. Collins. Hatch. etc. ad nauseam. With Republican friends such as these, conservatives have little need of the Democrats as the enemy.

44 posted on 01/31/2014 12:40:52 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (This GOP is dead. What do we do now?)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

If the GOP goes for amnesty then I’m done with the GOP because it’ll have killed itself and I don’t hang out with people who support suicide.


45 posted on 01/31/2014 3:34:36 PM PST by MeganC (Support Matt Bevin to oust Mitch McConnell! https://mattbevin.com/)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

“Protectionism, of the border and our domestic industries, looks better every day.”

Horse-barn-empty-gone.


46 posted on 02/01/2014 8:22:10 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

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47 posted on 02/01/2014 8:28:27 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Kenny Bunk

When it comes to the critical congressional votes, such as on amnesty, the solidly leftist ‘Rats plus the GOPe (elite) Quisling traitors will always constitute a majority in favor of plundering the carcass of a once great and proud nation.


48 posted on 02/01/2014 8:31:05 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: jwalsh07
Mexico only opens the Northern Border. In the south they shoot Guatemalans.

...and then cry bloody murder if any American politician proposes to do a tenth of the same at our own border.

49 posted on 02/03/2014 11:58:14 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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