Posted on 05/09/2014 5:19:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
Wow with that elitist attitude you might be able to reinstate the monarchy in the USA.
Boy the anti "normal" people venom is really out today. Howerver, I am not surprised the GOPe bootlickers
Yes, because relegating the GOP to minority party status, preventing guys like Ted Cruz from ever having any tangible power (chairing a committee or subcommittee with subponae power) because you hate GOPe/RINOs more than you hate Liberals/Democrats makes so much logical sense...
This behavior goes right back to the beginnings of the tea party. A comment I made in a thread about the forced unionization scam in Michigan. Moderate republicans were the primary driving force behind it and then the number 1 guy ran for the 1st district seat and the moderates wanted Dan Benishek to get out of the way for the guy who can win.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3153942/posts?page=8#8
Just check keyword “Benishek” and you’ll find those threads with those moderate pimps and me.
Um, there already is pretty much a monarchy (ok, more like oligarchy) in the US. Barack Obama is the current King.
Foot shooting candidates like Akin, Mourdock, etc may help assuage your anger/contempt/frustration/feelings of inadequacy, but they hurt, not help, the cause of getting rid of it.
But then again, you really don’t want to get rid of the Liberal oligarchy, do you? It would rob you of the ability to sit around wallowing in your anger/contempt/frustration/feelings of inadequacy, wouldn’t it?
The issues we care about affect all US citizens. We might be better off articulating them across the political spectrum rather than be backstabbed by someone we supported. A lot of these conservatives who lost don't have a voting record on the issues.
I agree completely.
But there also needs to be an acknowlegement that Conservatives have been stung by the incompetence of candidates like Akin an Mourdock too.
Launching in on anyone who raises that point, or that GOPe candidates running in Blue states/districts where Tea Party candidates can’t win are worse than Dem\Liberal candidates isn’t ... helpful. I consider myself to be a Reagan Conservative first, Republican second. I believe that my long term posting history here supports tgst. As do, I think, a lot of other Freepers who raise the same issues as me. Insulting us by ramping up the personal attacks and insults for our somewhat more pragmatic view when it comes to electoral politics serves no real purpose other than to perpetuate unnecessary divisiveness.
Better, not worse, in second para above.
Where I probably disagree with you is that I wouldn’t vote for those who have a voting history of backstabbing constitutional conservatives. My exception would be someone like Rubio, who pretty much got played by Schummer and McCain, but has stayed true to conservative principles...if only he can get education about the invasion of the US.
Actually reversing the Fascist/Commie trends of America would be.
I understand.
I’d still vote for a backstabber over a Dem, just to get the numbers of seats held up and ensure a majority. Not for the sake of the backstabber, but because a rising tide raises all boats (Reagan liked that quote, btw) and would elevate good guys like Cruz into positions of tangible power.
Does it ever occur to you bimbo GOPe whores that for every TP candidate you dane incompetent there are 50 maybe 100 progressive RINO’s on your side?
“Like I said, a republican is challenging for the Dingell seat without party backing.”
You are either woefully uninformed or an F’ing liar.
I personally went to a fundraiser for Oberweis. Rino Senator Mark Kirk, Hank Paulsen, Jim Riske, and Rob Portman were there too.
Oberweis did say he is putting a lot of his own money into it. I think his family owns a bunch of Ice Cream shops.
It is not one of the 14 hotly contested seats and Oberweis is expected to lose, but he is giving it his all and the NRSC IS GIVING NOMINAL SUPPORT BUT SUPPORT NONETHELESS.
I still fail to understand why you people like to spout off lies like the one you just posted.
The event was on Thursday, April 24, 2014.
“Ted Cruz. Mike Lee. It can be done when we choose serious candidates. Far too many of the Tea Party insurgent candidates have been people who quite simply lack the resume or the gravitas to be taken seriously as candidates”
THANK YOU FOR POSTING.
You pathetic lying piece of garbage.
The Dingell seat is in Michigan and has nothing to so with the names you mentioned.
Now go wipe that Rove off your chin.
Yeah, you are right. I was thinking Durbin instead of Dingell.
I love normal people. I don’t hire them for senior jobs on my team, and my team doesn’t have the fate of the free world in its hands. Candidates for Congress should be people of clear intelligence and significant accomplishment.
The nation, as founded, was supposed to have citizen legislature. Your vision of an elitist utopia has been realized.
... Maybe you believe supporting legal immigration is the same as supporting amnesty....
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That’s nothing but spin. Of course I support LEGAL immigration, but that has nothing to do with being a US citizen.
I also support the Constitution and it specifies that (to paraphrase) a POTUS has to born of a parent subject to the jurisdiction of the US; that is, not parents of foreign citizenry. Rubio’s parents were both Cuban citizens when he was born. ...Likewise, Jindal’s parents were both Indian citizens when he was born, so he’s not eligible for POTUS, either.
Being a legal immigrant doesn’t make that person a US citizen.
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