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GOPer Attacks Primary Opponent: He Won't Say 'Repeal Obamacare'
talkingpointsmemo.com ^ | 4/1/14 | Daniel Straus

Posted on 04/01/2014 6:14:27 PM PDT by cotton1706

A tea party Senate candidate is going after one of his Republican primary competitors over a supporting ad that does not include the phrase "repeal Obamacare."

North Carolina Senate candidate Greg Brannon's (R) campaign is attacking North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-NC) Senate campaign over a new ad by American Crossroads in support of the state House Speaker, establishment Republicans' preferred candidate in the race.

The narrator in the ad said Tillis has the "conservative guts" to replace Obamacare with "honest healthcare reforms." The ad however does not say Tillis wants to repeal Obamacare and that's where the Brannon campaign pounced.

"You’ll notice it makes no mention of repealing Obamacare which would take real guts and surprisingly it even references the same radio interview in which Thom says Obamacare is a great idea that can’t be paid for," Brannon campaign manager Reilly O'Neal told The Plum Line's Greg Sargent. "What I’m not at all surprised to see is an ad touting his conservative credentials launch on April 1st of all days. Seems fitting."

The Tillis campaign responded that the House speaker strongly opposes Obamacare.

"Speaker Tillis obviously does not think Obamacare is a great idea, and in fact he wants to repeal it and will do so in the U.S. Senate," the Tillis campaign's Jordan Shaw said.

Tillis, actually, has said there are a few good ideas in the health care law but that he still opposes it over all.

(Excerpt) Read more at talkingpointsmemo.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: elections; gregbrannon; jordanshaw; northcarolina; reillyoneal; thomtillis
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Remember that Thom Tillis said Obamacare was a "Great Idea!"

http://www.freedomworks.org/content/thom-tillis-calls-obamacare-unaffordable-%E2%80%9Cgreat-idea%E2%80%9D

Greg Brannon for Senate on May 6th!!

1 posted on 04/01/2014 6:14:27 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Tillis thinks Obamacare is a “Great Idea”

http://www.freedomworks.org/content/thom-tillis-calls-obamacare-unaffordable-%E2%80%9Cgreat-idea%E2%80%9D


2 posted on 04/01/2014 6:15:10 PM PDT by cotton1706 (ThisRepublic.net)
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To: cotton1706

Three cheers!!

Until today, the GOP has supported BOTH ObamaCARE
and RomneyCARE and any statism.

GOP = Gave. Obama. Power.


3 posted on 04/01/2014 6:18:12 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: cotton1706

Tillis is too liberal to run on a different platform to Kay Hagan.

If he wants to fix Obamacare and fix immigration, keep Hagan.


4 posted on 04/01/2014 6:22:52 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: cotton1706

Obamacare creates a new tax authority, therefore the ruling class is all for it or at least for tinkering with it.

Bottomline is Obamacare was a tax snuck by the American electorate.


5 posted on 04/01/2014 6:27:03 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Diogenesis
GOP = Gave. Obama. Power.

NO. Conservatives who refused to vote for Romney gave the White House to Obama.

6 posted on 04/01/2014 6:28:42 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: cotton1706

Let me tell you this before you go night night. The RINO Republicrats faded in the only chance to defund obamacare. Weak, vacillating republicrats like Boner and Mitchell and ROOOOVEEE gave up!! Reject them. Expel them. Forget them quickly. This is our party!! the party of Reagan.


7 posted on 04/01/2014 6:36:10 PM PDT by SADMILLIE
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To: cotton1706

This guy would be terrible. VOTE BRANNON!


8 posted on 04/01/2014 6:46:52 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: cotton1706

http://gregbrannon.com/

Repeal now, Repeal Forever! Must..this must be OUR rallying Cry!


9 posted on 04/01/2014 7:05:52 PM PDT by JSDude1 (Defeat Hagan, elect a Constutional Conservative: Dr. Greg Brannon!)
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To: cotton1706

Why does the Establishment keep trying to lose?


10 posted on 04/01/2014 7:38:34 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: ladyjane
NO. Conservatives who refused to vote for Romney gave the White House to Obama.

I, for one, am glad that Romney did not win; if he did do you think the party could, at all, hold his feet to the firewhen they are unwilling/unable to do so w/ Obama? — No, allowing the party to win with a political clone of Obama would have been the affirming signal the GOP is looking for to justify significant moves further left.

11 posted on 04/01/2014 7:41:27 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

Bump


12 posted on 04/01/2014 7:44:47 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: ladyjane

The party failed to nominate a candidate who could win, period. The blame is not on the voter, who is free to vote or not as they please, but on the candidate to attract those votes.

Romney was a liberal in masa taxes and pretending to be a conservative - and we all knew it. We were supposed to pretend he was something he wasn’t like the liberals do? That is the thing, conservatives will never pretend that way.

If the Republican Party wants to win, they need to nominate better people


13 posted on 04/01/2014 7:48:59 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: ladyjane
Conservatives who refused to vote for Romney gave the White House to Obama.

No, blue-collar workers refused to vote for Romney. Maybe Romney should have been doing tours of factories instead of hanging with his elitist Wall Street buddies.

14 posted on 04/01/2014 7:56:14 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (GO WISCONSIN BADGERS GO!)
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To: ladyjane

“NO. Conservatives who refused to vote for Romney gave the White House to Obama. “

+1.


15 posted on 04/01/2014 8:03:48 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: ladyjane

Everyone conservative voted for Romney.

The problem was that Romney DID NOT WANT TO WIN.
The socialist chameleon was in it for Soros, his partner
in JETBlue.

G.O.P. = Give Obama Power

and

RomneyCARE = ObamaCARE = HillaryCARE


16 posted on 04/02/2014 3:06:34 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: ladyjane

Also, if the backstabbing, liar, Willard Romney
did not have his paid surrogates attack Gov. Palin
AND HER CHILDREN,
then Obama would have never been pRes_ _ent.

Romney is responsible for Obama winning BOTH TIMES!!


17 posted on 04/02/2014 3:21:37 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: JSDude1

Repeal now, Repeal Forever! Must..this must be OUR rallying Cry!
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A lot of folks will remember where that “type” of line originated. It’s from the ‘60s when Southern Democrats, like George Wallace, adopted for their battle cry: “Segregation now; Segregation forever”.

Not sure your idea is a good one. But, I don’t know everything.


18 posted on 04/02/2014 10:29:41 AM PDT by Din Maker (Rand Paul, Rick Perry endorsed McConnell over Bevin. Neither will ever get my vote in 2016.)
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To: ladyjane

Get over yourself. Romney lost because he ran a lousy campaign. Had he ran his campaign like he performed in the first debate he would have cleaned the floor with the kenyan. Instead he allowed the Dems to define him with no return fire and followed a consultant driven tip toe to the election loser game plan. Those decisions are 100% on Romney. Stop blaming others for his failures.


19 posted on 04/02/2014 10:34:28 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Din Maker

You could be right, but WE MUST NOT, give up Repeal!


20 posted on 04/02/2014 11:01:45 AM PDT by JSDude1 (Defeat Hagan, elect a Constutional Conservative: Dr. Greg Brannon!)
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