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MARK CUBAN: I want to be a Republican — but the party has one big problem
The Business Insider ^ | 8/12 | Colin Campbell

Posted on 08/12/2015 8:13:11 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

In a Tuesday post on his Cyber Dust social media app, the outspoken billionaire investor wrote that he would prefer to join the GOP but has an issue with the party's push for conformity.

"Put aside that I disagree with Republicans on most social issues. The Republicans have a much bigger problem that will crush them in every Presidential election until this changes."

Cuban lamented that those who disagree with the "Consensus" are labeled as fake Republicans.

"The Republican Party requires that all their Presidential candidates Conform to Consensus. If you don't agree with every platform of the party not only are you called a RINO, a 'Republican in Name Only.' You are considered unelectable in primaries and become a source of scorn on Fox News. That's a problem," he said.

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Thoughts?
1 posted on 08/12/2015 8:13:11 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Who says we want you?


2 posted on 08/12/2015 8:14:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I won’t lose any sleep Mark. Stay Democrat.


3 posted on 08/12/2015 8:14:49 AM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

If you stand for everything, you stand for nothing.


4 posted on 08/12/2015 8:15:22 AM PDT by peyton randolph (I am not a number. I am a free man.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Yeah, because anti-abortion, anti-affirmative action, or anti-whatever-the-plank Democrats get so far in their party.


5 posted on 08/12/2015 8:15:23 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Try to get elected as a D opposing abortion, higher taxes, school choice, and a dozen other issues that are CONSENSUS to the D’s.

He’s full of sh!t.


6 posted on 08/12/2015 8:15:46 AM PDT by panzerkamphwageneinz
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Thoughts?

The sooner Mark Cuban has surgery to correct cranial-rectal inversion, the better.

7 posted on 08/12/2015 8:15:49 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("No social transformation without representation." - Justice Antonin Scalia)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I think he’s a RINO. He should try to persuade the Dems to pick up his ecoomic platform and see how far he gets with them (without opening his wallet).


8 posted on 08/12/2015 8:16:06 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Sounds like he wants to be a Megan McCain “republican.” Sorry chief, we’ve already got one of those.


9 posted on 08/12/2015 8:16:45 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Cecil the Lion says, Stop the Slaughter of the Baby Humans!!!)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

All Democrats block vote 97% of the time.


10 posted on 08/12/2015 8:17:15 AM PDT by thorvaldr
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To: TangledUpInBlue

There is more diversity of thought on our side than theirs. Period. There are zero pro-life Democrats allowed. Zero. They’ll get pulled from the stage at the convention.

We have Ron Paul people, we have pro-choice people, we have war-mongers and we have isolationists, and a lot in between.

Cuban is a lot like Trump where he invests little time in understanding the nuances and accepts a lot of the generalities. Both have things to be admired but neither have the true pulse of voters and their preferences.


11 posted on 08/12/2015 8:17:33 AM PDT by ilgipper
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The Republican Party requires that all their Presidential candidates Conform to Consensus. If you don't agree with every platform of the party not only are you called a RINO, a 'Republican in Name Only

The man is an abject idiot. He has no idea what a RINO is. He should stick to what he knows.

12 posted on 08/12/2015 8:18:34 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Cuban is either ignorant, disingenuous or both.


13 posted on 08/12/2015 8:18:35 AM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

The problem with (both) parties is everyone has sold out American jobs to China, who now exports more than America does, and that is growing rapidly.

Get with Donald, Mark. Donald is saying we need to rebuild our own manufacturing.

I completely support Trump on this (and several prominent agenda items) but he is the only candidate saying a single work about the massive sell-out.

Stand up Mark. Be for bringing back US jobs.

Lots, and lots, and lots of them.

Now.


14 posted on 08/12/2015 8:18:45 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

The only reason I am a republican is that the crazy’s in the republican party don’t scare me as much as the crazy’s in the democratic party... withy the crazy’s in the republican part I don’t feel they will damage the country where in the democratic party they are damaging the country.


15 posted on 08/12/2015 8:19:30 AM PDT by PCPOET7 (VORS)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Watch where you step. bullshit detector photo: bullshit detector 1242749315_bullshit_amplifier-detec.gif Cuban droppings.
16 posted on 08/12/2015 8:20:02 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

He can have my seat. I left the room a while ago.


17 posted on 08/12/2015 8:20:17 AM PDT by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Let Cuban keep paying protection money in the form of campaign cash to the Democrats. If Pres. Sanders confiscates 90% of his income and gives it to the Poor, he should feel so good about himself.


18 posted on 08/12/2015 8:20:20 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: TangledUpInBlue

How many Dems are openly pro-life? How many support the 2nd amendment? I could go on and on. The Dems require a lockstep adherence to their ideology. In terms of a “big tent of ideas” the GOP is far more diverse and accepting of different points of view.


19 posted on 08/12/2015 8:20:29 AM PDT by kabar
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To: TangledUpInBlue

He sounds like a perfect fit for most of the GOPe. They care about social issues like the Dems care about blacks.

Pray America is waking


20 posted on 08/12/2015 8:20:55 AM PDT by bray (Cruz to the White House)
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