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To: SeekAndFind

Sadly she is right. Our corrupt, partisan media has convinced the mass of low-info sheeple that if the government were to shut down, grocery store shelves would be empty and planes would start falling out of the sky within half an hour.


2 posted on 12/09/2014 5:42:24 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Three weeks of press treatment and the truth is recognized by all.”-Oswald Spengler


4 posted on 12/09/2014 5:46:57 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Sadly she is right. Our corrupt, partisan media . . . .

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What she said of the media is about the only thing she got right in the article. Romney lost because many stayed home. She said that Romney only got 60% of the white vote, while true the statistics she was referring to weren't about white voters but about Perot voters who were white. I'm pretty sure that Romney got pretty close to 100% of the Perot voters who voted.

I'm not at all sure Romney would have been a lot better for the country in some ways. Sure we would likely not have Obama care, sure we would be much better off internationally and militarily but we would have still been on a slide down to socialism. It is socialism that is tearing this country apart and the Manchurian candidate running the country.

7 posted on 12/09/2014 5:53:29 AM PST by JAKraig (Surely my religion is at least as good as yours)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Obama and Jarrett would love another shutdown. And some on this board would love to give it to them.


8 posted on 12/09/2014 5:55:57 AM PST by Blackirish
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Rush is never wrong.


13 posted on 12/09/2014 6:07:30 AM PST by wattsgnu
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Can anyone name one representative or senator who was NOT elected due to the earlier shutdown? I think many voters were motivated because the government was shut down and finally someone took a stand in DC. If the Republicans become “potted plants” then they will loose the support they have from their base.


40 posted on 12/09/2014 7:25:02 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Totally disagree with you and her. First, all we had to show that the GOP was "unpopular" were POLLS. Yet Rush is absolutely right---when we have actual ELECTIONS, the results are hugely different.

Second, even if it is true that the Republicans got blamed for the shutdown, what did it cost us? Maybe . . . and this isn't proven . . . MAYBE the VA governorship. Yet a year later, the lackluster GOP VA senate candidate was so strong that he almost overthrew the incumbent. Meanwhile the GOP crushed the Dems in election after election.

No, Congress has only two tools to stop Obama: impeachment and a budget with the possibility of a shutdown.

We should USE THEM BOTH.

52 posted on 12/09/2014 7:58:55 AM PST by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
"Republicans want to shrink government"

Not the RINO leadership (which is still in control); they want to spend just as much as the Demorats.

62 posted on 12/09/2014 9:12:02 AM PST by celmak
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Sadly and begrudgingly, I agree with you and Mona. The partisan media has the low information voter thinking like an idiot. They already have the govvies here in DC whining about Republicans and they have not even taken office yet, for crying out loud. One caveat is that of timing...a shutdown in January for example is much better than a shutdown near an election day.


63 posted on 12/09/2014 9:18:23 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Buckeye McFrog

It would be Obama shutting it down


69 posted on 12/09/2014 11:02:40 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

However, the Government DID shut down, and people ALL said “When?”


93 posted on 01/04/2015 9:15:17 AM PST by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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