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Independents Rule and Will Continue to Do So
Townhall.com ^ | January 20, 2022 | Jackie Gingrich Cushman

Posted on 01/20/2022 6:49:53 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: silverleaf

Your thoughts are your thoughts, and I did not discard them; you didn’t articulate them, with all due respect.

Whomever gains or loses the White House at this point is at the discretion of the Deep State and not the voters and the states, unless their power is taken from them.


21 posted on 01/20/2022 7:24:19 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Kaslin

Trump handed the Republicans the keys to winning over the independents, and the GOP threw the keys in the river.


22 posted on 01/20/2022 7:25:24 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Kaslin

“Independents” are uninterested voters. Here in NH, their level of voter participation is much lower than that registered voters from either party.

They don’t care and they don’t show up.

Maybe it will be different this time simply because things are getting so bad.


23 posted on 01/20/2022 7:32:59 AM PST by PTBAA
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To: Kaslin

Strategy for 2022 - STOP the bleeding.
Strategy for 2024 - Make a U-turn to how it was BEFORE Biden.


24 posted on 01/20/2022 7:38:46 AM PST by jimmygrace
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To: Kaslin

There is not “majority” Republican support. There is a 7-point plurality. I’m surprised Newt’s daughter doesn’t know the difference between majority and plurality.

Nonetheless, this is excellent news for Republicans. The GOP has a significant advantage in this year’s elections. I expect a significant red wave.


25 posted on 01/20/2022 8:05:43 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Pollard
MAGA now and forever.

My advice: The GOP needs to ditch globalism and corporatism and take up pro America nationalism, protectionism and be the party of the working class ( which the are not now ).

26 posted on 01/20/2022 8:11:21 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: jimmygrace

Make a U-turn to how it was BEFORE Biden = Trump policies, and Trump himself!!!


27 posted on 01/20/2022 8:12:41 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: silverleaf

I left the GOP because of attitudes like Romney and Cheney. Sure, occasionally I may cringe at a Trump word choice. The vast majority of the time, it is the MSM interpretation of what Trump has said that I cringe at.

Trump loves this country.


28 posted on 01/20/2022 8:13:39 AM PST by pnut22
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To: Boogieman

Message to all yo anti Trump squishes: There is no GOP after Trump. The party ceases to be viable unless the go all in for Trump.


29 posted on 01/20/2022 8:13:46 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: pnut22
Trump loves this country.

Without a doubt. Worth repeating!!

30 posted on 01/20/2022 8:19:08 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Kaslin

Hey Kaslin, stuff your Bushie anti-Trump posting agenda....


31 posted on 01/20/2022 8:20:01 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Kaslin

Never underestimate the ability of the GOP to screw it up.


32 posted on 01/20/2022 8:31:36 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Kaslin

Majority of independents = conservatives that no longer wish to identify with the Republican party.


33 posted on 01/20/2022 9:00:58 AM PST by Kazan
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To: oldplayer
In other words, be moderate?

And, that would incredibly stupid because the majority of independents are disenfranchised conservatives that got fed up with the GOP. Then, a minority of them are leftists that won't affiliate with the Democrats. But, most independents aren't moderate.

34 posted on 01/20/2022 9:04:09 AM PST by Kazan
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To: Olog-hai; All

How does one “ articulate” that an interview was a rambling discussion?
Trump was all over the board…but then: Levin led him there.
As a critique of Bidens speech, a critique of the regime. OK
Yada yada yada
Soon, very soon,,,Trump needs to focus his speeches on the future. Not the past. Less bragging about the past, more concrete plans for the future,

Otherwise his only campaign appeal to independents is “I’m not Joe Biden”
At least Levin let Trump talk …a rare skill among what passes today as ‘ interviewers’
The interview for those who missed it
https://www.wbap.com/2022/01/20/mark-levin-interviews-president-donald-trump/


35 posted on 01/20/2022 9:41:14 AM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: silverleaf

Future and not the past? That’s straight out of the Communist Manifesto. Hope that’s not where you’re coming from.


36 posted on 01/20/2022 9:54:51 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Oh no, I’m a communist!
20 years in military intel and my cover was secure until you guessed it!
Well, my handlers say to avoid further discussion so…bye


37 posted on 01/20/2022 10:45:08 AM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: Kazan

“And, that would incredibly stupid because the majority of independents are disenfranchised conservatives that got fed up with the GOP.”

Well stated.


38 posted on 01/20/2022 10:52:26 AM PST by Luke21
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To: silverleaf
In bourgeois society … the past dominates the present; in communist society, the present dominates the past.
The communist dictatorships did not invent the concept themselves. And the Democratic Party uses rhetoric that exhorts people to forget the past and look to the future, endlessly, echoing the reputed Soviet joke “The future is certain; it’s the past that keeps on changing”.

So you assert that Mark Levin asked Trump leading questions, and you did not pinpoint anything specific Trump said that you accuse of being “rambling” and “unfocused”. And you bring up membership in the GOP, which is utterly unrelated to anything relevant here; I myself have been an independent for decades, but so what?

And you are saying nothing of the 2020 cheating.
39 posted on 01/20/2022 11:15:11 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: silverleaf; Olog-hai

<>But man, lets stop beating dead ponies<>

John Locke wrote that a rebuttal is required lest victory be “adjudged not to him who had the truth on his side, but by he who had the last word.”

The rats know that we know they stole 2020. We must never let it go.


40 posted on 01/20/2022 2:35:23 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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