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The GOP doesn't have a Donald Trump problem. It has an angry conservative base problem.
The Week ^ | July 10th, 2015 | Damon Linker

Posted on 07/10/2015 9:19:09 AM PDT by Mariner

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To: donna

That’s like trying to make a skunk stop stinking.


61 posted on 07/10/2015 9:55:21 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Lex rex)
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To: Jim 0216

The real answer is for TEA Party types to take the GOP from the country clubbers who don’t push back against Leftists.


62 posted on 07/10/2015 9:56:16 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: freedomfiter2

Well, I agree, lol.


63 posted on 07/10/2015 9:56:58 AM PDT by donna (Polls are mob rule . . . faked.)
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To: EBH
We need a conservative candidate who will provide the message Trump is sending. How long must we wait before a GOP conservative, other than Jeff Sessions, will describe the damage being wreaked by illegal aliens, human and monetarily? The data are there.

Criminal Alien Statistics: Information on Incarcerations, Arrests, and Costs GAO-11-187: Published: Mar 24, 2011. Publicly Released: Apr 21, 2011.

The number of criminal aliens in federal prisons in fiscal year 2010 was about 55,000, and the number of SCAAP criminal alien incarcerations in state prison systems and local jails was about 296,000 in fiscal year 2009 (the most recent data available), and the majority were from Mexico. The number of criminal aliens in federal prisons increased about 7 percent from about 51,000 in fiscal year 2005 while the number of SCAAP criminal alien incarcerations in state prison systems and local jails increased about 35 percent from about 220,000 in fiscal year 2003. The time period covered by these data vary because they reflect updates since GAO last reported on these issues in 2005. Specifically, in 2005, GAO reported that the percentage of criminal aliens in federal prisons was about 27 percent of the total inmate population from 2001 through 2004. Based on our random sample, GAO estimates that the criminal aliens had an average of 7 arrests, 65 percent were arrested at least once for an immigration offense, and about 50 percent were arrested at least once for a drug offense.

Immigration, drugs, and traffic violations accounted for about 50 percent of arrest offenses. About 90 percent of the criminal aliens sentenced in federal court in fiscal year 2009 (the most recently available data) were convicted of immigration and drug-related offenses. About 40 percent of individuals convicted as a result of DOJ terrorism-related investigations were aliens. SCAAP criminal aliens incarcerated in selected state prison systems in Arizona, California, Florida, New York, and Texas were convicted of various offenses in fiscal year 2008 (the most recently available data at the time of GAO's analysis). The highest percentage of convictions for criminal aliens incarcerated in four of these states was for drug-related offenses. Homicide resulted in the most primary offense convictions for SCAAP criminal aliens in the fifth state--New York--in fiscal year 2008. GAO estimates that costs to incarcerate criminal aliens in federal prisons and SCAAP reimbursements to states and localities ranged from about $1.5 billion to $1.6 billion annually from fiscal years 2005 through 2009;

64 posted on 07/10/2015 10:02:50 AM PDT by kabar
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To: FreedomPoster

We’ve been trying since 2009, giving them big wins in 2010 and 2014. The response from the GOP has been to punish the guys we sent there to stop Obama while they give him everything he wants.

The people running the GOP would rather burn the party to the ground than let conservatives take over.


65 posted on 07/10/2015 10:05:22 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: KittenClaws
He is managing to rile up conservatives, maybe enough to win some conservative votes, while painting all republicans as racist.

What is he saying that is "racist?"

66 posted on 07/10/2015 10:05:55 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Lurkinanloomin

This isn’t a 6 or 8 year effort. It takes perseverance. They have people that have been working the party structures for decades.

Get to work.


67 posted on 07/10/2015 10:44:00 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: catfish1957

It would not stay a 3-party system for long. Do you have any doubt that if a Tea Party became large enough to contend that the RINO GOPe would not join hands with the DNC and all sing Kumbaya in order to defeat us? The GOP needs to go the way of the Whigs. The sooner the better.


68 posted on 07/10/2015 10:44:09 AM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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To: FreedomPoster

I was buying my own sign making materials and making signs slamming the weasel Eric Cantor all over his district even before Dave Brat announced he was running. I immediately volunteered and posted signs, etc. Smiled for a week after the weasel got tossed.
I thought more districts would follow our lead.
Not many did. Lots of weasels got reelected.
They really sunk to new lows in Mississippi.
It appears the RNC is using the same playbook that nominated McAmnesty and Romneycare to nominate Yeb Bush.
All the levers of power and money are in the hands of the cheap labor importers.


69 posted on 07/10/2015 10:52:41 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ponygirl

The GOP needs to go the way of the Whigs. The sooner the better.


Exactly right. I’ve come to the conclusion that the GOP exists to block conservatives, not represent them.
They are thwarting every effort to stop the illegal alien inundation.
For the Republic to survive the GOP must die.

GOP-RIP


70 posted on 07/10/2015 10:56:07 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I hear you, and you guys did real good with Brat. The MS thing still is an abomination.

We have to keep plugging away, cycle after cycle.


71 posted on 07/10/2015 10:56:27 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I hear you, and you guys did real good with Brat. The MS thing still is an abomination.

We have to keep plugging away, cycle after cycle.


72 posted on 07/10/2015 10:56:27 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Mariner
...and deploying wildly irresponsible rhetoric about the dire threats posed to the nation by mainstream members of the Democratic Party.

Translation: Telling the truth about Dems.

73 posted on 07/10/2015 10:58:05 AM PDT by Fledermaus (To hell with the Republican Party. I'm done with them. If I want a Lib Dem I'd vote for one.)
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To: Mariner

The last vestiges of America,Conservatives,and we are the problem,if that is true we are done


74 posted on 07/10/2015 11:01:04 AM PDT by ballplayer (hvexx NKK c bmytit II iyijjhihhiyyiyiyi it iyiiy II i hi jiihi ty yhiiyihiijhijjyjiyjiiijyuiiijihyii)
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To: Sybeck1

LOL

That’s a good one!


75 posted on 07/10/2015 11:05:43 AM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: Menthops

“delicate plans of the GOP” We have only one party in this country now. GOP,DNC,LIBs, are all NWO they have no god, only a plan to bring mankind into a new world.


76 posted on 07/10/2015 11:06:19 AM PDT by lostboy61 (Lock and Load and stand your ground!.)
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To: Mariner

Conservatives like Me have won the last two elections for a-holes like boehner and McConnel and they turn around and kick us in the ass?
Both deserve to be drug behind a pick up truck from Pahokee to LaBelle.


77 posted on 07/10/2015 11:08:06 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: Mariner

78 posted on 07/10/2015 11:10:48 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: oblomov

“They don’t just believe it, they know it.”

You can’t know something that isn’t true.


79 posted on 07/10/2015 11:11:59 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: GeronL

“No “conservative” would be supporting Trump”

You mean no GOP would support Trump. Conservatives LOVE his America First ! America Win! message.


80 posted on 07/10/2015 11:13:46 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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