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GOP? What GOP?
American Thinker ^ | May 12, 2011 | Bruce A. Riggs

Posted on 05/12/2011 4:45:53 PM PDT by neverdem

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We can thank Obama for one thing. He gave us the Tea Party movement none too soon for a GOP that was becoming an empty shell thanks to the ruling class in D.C.
1 posted on 05/12/2011 4:45:59 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem
Interesting that the first Republican to declare his candidacy is the last one I would vote for.

A want to recruit this guy:

I'll even pay for the update to "2012" on his site!

2 posted on 05/12/2011 4:49:15 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (osama gets 72 virgins. We get 72 versions...)
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To: freedumb2003

Oh, Please


3 posted on 05/12/2011 4:52:53 PM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough.)
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>>Oh, Please<<

Look at the alternatives! Mercer is my guy, even if he accidentally ran as a democrat!


4 posted on 05/12/2011 4:56:16 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (osama gets 72 virgins. We get 72 versions...)
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To: neverdem

I agree with you. It took the Tea Party to make me realize that I just want Karl Rove to shut up and go away. He personifies the elitist GOP who stand for absolutely NOTHING. At least the Dems are trying to transform the nation into something they believe in. The GOP, by contrast, stand for nothing, fight for nothing and offer their voters NOTHING in return for their votes of confidence. Thank you, Obama, for waking up the public to what was happening before it was too late.


5 posted on 05/12/2011 5:00:26 PM PDT by onevoter
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To: neverdem
At stake is no less than the Constitutional soul of America. And that needs to be the Republican Party's focus as 2012 looms. If America lapses into a "Peoples Republic" or some "UN District X" the RINO bourgeoisie will be among the first to feel the collectivist chokehold. Time is running out.

This is what we FReepers have been saying for a long time.

6 posted on 05/12/2011 5:03:01 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: neverdem

I believe that GWB & Rove started the fire and Obama lit the match.


7 posted on 05/12/2011 5:08:31 PM PDT by HonestConservative (http://www.freedomradiorocks.com)
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To: HonestConservative
The GOP might make it if (1) if they don't drag us some old dried out old Fart that has been in the Senate since it was built

(2) Get someone with new ideas, new recommendations about solving our Country's problems.

( 3) Get a doer not some old Fogey that has done nothing but shine their butts in the Senate. I know if will get flamed for this, but when the smoke clears away, I think the best person would be Sarah. Now that you have climbed down off of the light fixture, think about it. She has been Governor of the largest state in the Union, she espouses a program of common sense. She is a pr oven money raiser, I would send her a $ 100.00 even if she isn't running for anything. Let's hear your ideas about who could run and win for the Grand Old Party.

8 posted on 05/12/2011 5:20:53 PM PDT by BooBoo1000 (Never pass up an opportunity to " Shut Up")
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Agree completely.


9 posted on 05/12/2011 5:23:06 PM PDT by HonestConservative (http://www.freedomradiorocks.com)
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To: neverdem
Not one memtion of the new RNC Chairman?

Do you know his name? ...where he's from? ...his plan for anything?

I have to look it up each I write one of these 'Where's Waldo' post.

10 posted on 05/12/2011 5:26:56 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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OK, I’m a little sick of this “blame the RINO” message. RINO’s have been around for as long as politics have been going on. Tring to blame them for what’s happened to GOP today is ridiculous and irresponsible. RINOs have no effect whatsoever on the conservative movement and never will.

The reason the Conservative movement is struggling for control of the GOP is because we lack effective leadership. We lack articulate leadership that not only can “preach to the choir” but also effectively spread the message about why our policies work best to the non-conservative voters. Not since Reagan has there been a nationally effective conservative leader described above. This is especially exemplified given the current field.

If a RINO gets the 2012 nomination, its for the failure that conservatives could not produce the articulate candidate, not some power-trip money-control grip by the National GOP. History has shown when the articulate conservative runs in these races, they win. If one doesn’t win, then they wern’t effective to begin with.


11 posted on 05/12/2011 5:45:05 PM PDT by parksstp (Articulate Conservatives look for Converts. RINO's look for Democrat Heretics.)
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[Art.] For the GOP then....it's all about getting majorities and committee chairmanships to steer pork to the ‘right' places.

This is absolutely huge, and key to understanding anything about the GOP.

For one thing, it explains why the RNC is secretly in bed with Obamacare -- because it gets health insurance off business's nickel. Because businessmen think, "if only I can get rid of my $4,000,000 health-insurance tab, I'd have $4,000,000 more untaxed profits on my bottom line!"

Whatever business wants, that's what the RNC wants -- and that's been true ever since Lincoln was elected.

12 posted on 05/12/2011 5:45:57 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: neverdem

The tipping point was the government shutdown of 1995. That convinced lots of Republican pols that conservatism is a loser, and we haven’t had a conservative governing majority since.

Also about the same time the neo-cons bought control of the Republican Party, while Soros and Hollywood spent trillions moving the country to the left on social issues.

The result is that we now have two Democratic parties, which only disagree about war, if anything at all. Bush was the first Republican president to have a Republican congress since the Great Depression, and except for war they acted like Democrats.

There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the parties, as one third-party candidate used to say.


13 posted on 05/12/2011 5:45:57 PM PDT by Siegfried X
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We haven’t had ANY conservative candidates who had a chance of winning the nomination since the mid-1990’s, let alone an “articulate” one. The Bush administration governed like Democrats.

RINOs control the Republican Party. It’s a Democrat clone.


14 posted on 05/12/2011 5:49:04 PM PDT by Siegfried X
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To: parksstp
OK, I’m a little sick of this “blame the RINO” message.

If you feel "a little sick" now, drop me a FReepmail and I'll arrange for your family to be called to your bedside ASAP~ ....

Tr[y]ing to blame them for what’s happened to GOP today is ridiculous and irresponsible. RINOs have no effect whatsoever on the conservative movement and never will.

BULL HOCKEY!!!

Go read about "the Compact of Fifth Avenue" and The Making of the President 1964. Then come back and try to peddle that one, if you still care to try.

The bullrush that floored the Reaganauts and everybody else for Poppy Bush in 1988, the noncampaign of 1996, and RiNOfest 2008 are my other prime exhibits. Gaze upon them without gagging, and you're a housefly.

15 posted on 05/12/2011 5:53:34 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: onevoter

Sorry, I cannot call myself a Republican any longer. I am a Conservative. Both Major parties are too red for me.


16 posted on 05/12/2011 5:59:38 PM PDT by Paperdoll ( On the cutting edge)
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To: neverdem; waterhill; ixtl
We can thank Obama for one thing. He gave us the Tea Party movement none too soon for a GOP that was becoming an empty shell thanks to the ruling class in D.C.

Absolutely.

What if by accident McCain/Palin had won?

Where would the economy be right now? Probably pretty close to where it is now.

Where would we stand on illegal immigration? Probably pretty close to where it is now.

Where would we stand on national security(TSA)? Probably pretty close to where it is now.

etc., etc., etc........

This is not a slam against Sarah, I love the woman, but I think we would have been in store for the same old-same old, because Sarah would have been "kept" from being effective in a McCain administration by the powers that be.

Sometimes, things work out the way they are supposed to (((ping))).

17 posted on 05/12/2011 6:03:04 PM PDT by Envisioning ( Call me a racist................, one more time......................)
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To: HonestConservative; BooBoo1000
Agree completely.

Ditto bump.

That woman is the love child of Theodore Roosevelt out of Annie Oakley, and the direct descendant of Molly Pitcher and Joan of Arc. God bless Sarah Palin!

18 posted on 05/12/2011 6:06:17 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: Envisioning
Sarah would have been "kept" from being effective in a McCain administration by the powers that be.

Absolutely! Look whose people were sticking needles in her even during the campaign, and nonstop ever since. Imitated if not led, of course, by the lovely Meghan. <Urp!>

19 posted on 05/12/2011 6:09:27 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: lentulusgracchus
......by the lovely Meghan. Urp!

LoL! Oh wait.....I don't feel so good.....[BRB].....

Love your tagline!

20 posted on 05/12/2011 6:13:30 PM PDT by Envisioning ( Call me a racist................, one more time......................)
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