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For His Own Sake, Mark Levin Should Leave the GOP
Commentary Magazine ^ | 12-19-2014 | Peter Wehner - Commentary

Posted on 12/20/2014 2:32:27 AM PST by smoothsailing

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To: ought-six

Agreed, but it can and does cause irrational behavior at times. If Mark wants to leave the GOP, more power to him, but I hate to say it, he could probably sell a few more books if he didn’t.


61 posted on 12/20/2014 7:40:05 AM PST by billhilly (First eligible to vote in 1958)
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To: smoothsailing

I completely disagree... although Mark sometimes gets on my nerves, it’s not his criticisms but more his rude behavior to callers. My mother and paramour both swing left... and have been in the car while listening to him recently... they are quite surprised at the ability of a conservative to criticize members of his own party so openly and aggressively. Not something they’re used to...


62 posted on 12/20/2014 7:55:24 AM PST by Katya (Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
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To: billhilly

I’m pretty sure the man values principle more than he values monney.

Mark levin is a national treasure.

The GOP is national sewage.


63 posted on 12/20/2014 7:59:24 AM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: chris37
And you know this just how? Sure, he is a brilliant man, and a good man, but he has also shown himself to be a successful opportunist in the mold of Glen Beck, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingram, Shawn Hannity and Bill O'Reilly. Each of those people were beneficiaries of Rush Limbaugh's path, yet Rush is the least changed by his success. Each has built a cult following that guarantees them huge sales, even if they print pages from the phone directory. Not one of them could make it in the rough and tumble world of elective politics.
64 posted on 12/20/2014 8:28:27 AM PST by billhilly (First eligible to vote in 1958)
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To: billhilly

Because I have listened to him every day for as long as I can remember.

And none of the people you cited have stated that they have any desire to be a politician.

And yes Rush has been changed by his success.

He’s pretty non-controversial these days, and not particularly insightful or cutting edge.


65 posted on 12/20/2014 8:40:34 AM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: chris37

Farmers listen to cows and pigs every day without becoming too attached to them. It seems to me that you may be on the “cult” side.


66 posted on 12/20/2014 8:42:38 AM PST by billhilly (First eligible to vote in 1958)
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To: smoothsailing

If America is ever going to be fixed, the Republican Party must be marginalized and replaced by an actual conservative alternative.

I hear people saying the party can be “fixed”. The lesson of 2014 is that it can’t. There is too much money and too much cronyism in the Old Wing for it to be fixed.

The Tea Party can score individual successes like Dave Brat and others but to take a truly populist conservative message to the people, conservatives must be able to take independent action outside a party apparatus that despises them.

And like it or not, people like Levin and Rush need to take the lead. They have daily access to a new party base. Until one of them does so, all this talk about “leaving” is just that. Talk.


67 posted on 12/20/2014 8:46:44 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: b4its2late

Levin is a very accurate bomb thrower.
The GOP is a dead party walking.


68 posted on 12/20/2014 8:49:55 AM PST by right way right (America will reject the suck of Socialist Freedumb, one way or another.)
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To: wtd
Can any GOPe/RINO define within any degree of precision what the current 'republican' party stands for?

Power as its own end, particularly the power to sell favors, just like the centrist liberals.

69 posted on 12/20/2014 8:55:47 AM PST by Carry_Okie (ObamaCare IS Medicaid: They'll pull a sheet over your head and send you the bill.)
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To: smoothsailing

Wehner’s another liberal who 1) wants any conservative out of the RINO infested dem-light GOP, and 2) thinks people will be fooled by a liberal advising the GOP on how to be successful in future elections.

Just another liberal liar.


70 posted on 12/20/2014 9:39:04 AM PST by DPMD
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To: smoothsailing
Mark Levin is a Conservative that understands 0bama and how the GOPe have facilitated his lawlessness and is not bashful when it comes to speaking out about it.

We'll soon see what the GOPe leaders are going to do about the out of control juvenile in the White Hut because Mark was exactly right when he said "Obama to go ‘full Mussolini’ after election: Mark Levin," I suspect little.

We need more outspoken Conservatives like Mark Levin.

71 posted on 12/20/2014 10:04:48 AM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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To: smoothsailing

On Thursday or Friday Mark commented that he was being asked what we should do now. We voted Republican and it isn’t working.

I did not hear him give a good answer. I know in a previous show this week, he ranted that he was ‘within an inch of leaving the Republican Party.’

Many of the incumbent REPUBLICANS ran on lies and deception. They were going to do X, Y and Z, if reelected. Then, as soon as they got back to the lameduck session, they voted for everything Obama wanted — just like they did in the lameduck session of 2010.

And, without some massive political earthquake, the GOPelites are going to give us Jeb or Christie or Mitt Retread for 2016.


72 posted on 12/20/2014 10:13:04 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: billhilly

Whatever.

People are going to do what they do without regard to how you rationalize or characterize them.

Conversation with you is pointless and annoying, so have a nice life.


73 posted on 12/20/2014 10:18:44 AM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: TomGuy

Article V convention of states.

He has stated the only remaining civil naswer many times, and he wrote a book about it.

Beyond that, there really is no civil solution.


74 posted on 12/20/2014 10:21:15 AM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: jazusamo
We need more outspoken Conservatives like Mark Levin.

Amen, Brother!


75 posted on 12/20/2014 10:26:42 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: right way right
GOP: Dead party walking.

Great tagline.

76 posted on 12/20/2014 10:49:54 AM PST by QT3.14
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To: Bill93
We are never going to get it back because we never really owned it.

Bingo! We rented it for eight years with Reagan but they fixed that anomaly.

77 posted on 12/20/2014 10:56:24 AM PST by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: smoothsailing

I have actually felt that Levin was leaning toward “independence” for quite some time.

Interesting that this article was released right before Levin will be gone for two weeks so there will be no response.


78 posted on 12/20/2014 11:00:25 AM PST by berdie
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To: taildragger
I am wondering if challenges to Boenher and McConnell are not out of the question in January....

Afraid they are, there is little doubt who controls both Houses and they are not conservatives.

We should wait until we can win the presidency then we can change things for the better.

79 posted on 12/20/2014 11:03:41 AM PST by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: chris37
Article V convention of states.

I just don't see how new amendments are going to corral those who are ignoring the amendments and laws we already have.

I did hear Mark reading a legalese amendment about banking, as my 'ears' glassed over and my mind wandered.

An Article V that does not first address term limits is not going to accomplishment much. And the old guard from both parties will fight that tooth and nail.
80 posted on 12/20/2014 11:07:32 AM PST by TomGuy
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