My question is, what rolled him to do the right thing all of a sudden? It certainly wasn’t conviction.
What correct buttons did Gohmert and Yoho press to unlock his combo?
From some reports it seems that after the vote and the threatening of punishment against those who voted against Boehner, the R leadership was inundated with emails and phone calls from their constituents supporting the Conservatives.
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Still the fact remains that we will not get everything we want in this Congress, some compromises will have to be made to make incremental progress. I Believe the R’s should go all out to win on Keystone and get whatever positive deal we can on Immigration. If we win the Presidency in 2016, those issues can be revisited.
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Right now the overall strategy should be to show the Tea Party/Conservative base that Leadership will fight the fights that they think they can win, and that base must be willing to accept the fact that we cannot get everything we want right now. Also the R leadership much convince the Independents, now the leading declared voting group, that they can govern and get things done. Remember 55% to 60% of Independents are self-labeled as Conservative or Lean Conservative. Those are the people who have gotten so disgusted with the GOP leadership that they switched party affiliation from R to Independent. They are a large voting block who are normally R voters except for the current, and rightful, disdain for R leadership. But they are persuadable but only through good faith efforts and actions and the shown ability to an electoral victory into some political victories and move things in a conservative direction for once. I hope Boehner and his strategists understand this fact and act accordingly.
they know what the election was about. THey know that the GOPe who got in and whom they are able to roll do not represent the voters and that the voters hate them and they know that 2016 is worse for the GOPe than they are letting us know.
They know it’s over for them, and that conservatives are the future, and that they are not going to get close to near as many votes for romneybush in 16 as they did in the last gen election.
we won. this is them getting over it
MHO