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Is There a Cure for Spinal Frailty in Republicans?
American Thinker ^ | September 22,2017 | Pem Schaeffer

Posted on 09/22/2017 7:35:36 AM PDT by Hojczyk

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To: Hojczyk

How about shock collars tied to AI, and every time they say or act against their campaign promises, they get shocked.


21 posted on 09/22/2017 8:05:14 AM PDT by DannyTN
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Primary them - preferably with a new party - the Federalist party.

They will never change - they must be removed. And anyone elected to replace them should be rotated out on a regular basis.


22 posted on 09/22/2017 8:08:28 AM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: Howie66

Force the RINOs out to form their own third party.


23 posted on 09/22/2017 8:10:35 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: Hojczyk
There is no spinal frailty. Spinal frailty assumes that the GOP really, really, really wants to make a change, but they don't have the gumption to. That's wrong. The GOP have plenty of spine. They just like the way things are, that's all. They like the perks they get from the Cheap Labor Express donors.

The GOP are just another division of the Washington Establishment.


24 posted on 09/22/2017 8:11:50 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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To: Hojczyk

In the last California governor’s election the GOP stuck us with Neel Kashkari.

Kashkari supports same-sex marriage, abortion rights, illegal aliens, gun control, and he believes in man caused climate change. He considers Jeb Bush his political mentor.

Neel Kashkari is an investment banker who worked in W’s Treasury Dept. He also worked in Obama’s administration. He says that he voted for Obama, twice. He’s properly multicultural, being Hindu.

That’s who the GOP establishment sees as the future.

The national GOP establishment savaged the Tea Party choice for California governor last time around.

They said that if Tim Donnelly was nominated it would cause losses all across the country. This was said by such GOP luminaries as Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Karl Rove, Pete Wilson and Darrell Issa. It was echoed on radio by Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved.


25 posted on 09/22/2017 8:12:22 AM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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26 posted on 09/22/2017 8:12:39 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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“It would help if we started discussing the actual issues, instead of this pedantic nonsense about “Republicans” being a “spineless opposition party.””

Perfect! But beyond your thesis, is the idea virtually all of them have about their self-importance and their wallets. The other key point that needs to be made is that far too many of them are lawyers. I understand that lawyers in the UK are proscribed from being Members of Parliament, which should be codified on our Constitution. Because they are there to serve a very narrow constituency, and for the fact that you should not elect "mechanics to design cars."

27 posted on 09/22/2017 8:14:41 AM PDT by vette6387 (LOCK HER UP! COMEY TOO.)
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To: Hojczyk

Replacement. However, everyone wants to keep their own spineless worm, so nothing changes.


28 posted on 09/22/2017 8:16:21 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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No.
The Republicans need go the way of the Whigs.


29 posted on 09/22/2017 8:17:05 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Hojczyk

Replace the party leaders who are used to being the token resistance with real fighters.


30 posted on 09/22/2017 8:31:47 AM PDT by tbw2
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It would help if we started discussing the actual issues, instead of this pedantic nonsense about “Republicans” being a “spineless opposition party.” For the most part the Republican and Democrat party are just two different brand names for a globalist cabal intent on looting the United States and surrendering its sovereignty. If anyone really thinks that John McCain, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell and Hillary Clinton are in different political parties they are not paying attention. Spinelessness isn’t the issue, just try to get in the way of Paul Ryan when he tries to serve his globalist masters and you’ll see all the spine you need.

Exactly right! In fact, they're showing quite a bit of spine by thumbing their noses at the people in order to defy President Trump. But they've miscalculated...bigly.

They think the old political paradigms are still in place and people who've always voted Republican will continue to do so because they think that we think the alternative is so much worse. The alternative is just more of the same.

I've been a Republican all my adult life. I voted for RWR in 1984 and voted a straight Republican ballot in every subsequent election. No more. I'm no longer a Republican and will only vote for patriots who promise to put country first and work to MAGA.

31 posted on 09/22/2017 8:32:52 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Hojczyk

Ballot box.


32 posted on 09/22/2017 8:38:09 AM PDT by GingisK
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It’s not that they have frail spines, rather it’s that they have no spines at all.


33 posted on 09/22/2017 8:39:26 AM PDT by pallmallman
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To: DoodleDawg

We need new Republicans.

Alexander, Corker, Flake, Graham, Hatch, Heller, Hoeven, Murkowsky, McCain, Rubio, Gardner, Burr, Tillis, Portman, McConnell, Thune, Cornyn, Cochran, Isackson, Blunt, Johnson, Toomey, Capito, Rounds, Fischer, Collins, Wicker, Sasse, Ernst, Young, Boozman and Shelby are all undocumented Democrats in R jerseys


34 posted on 09/22/2017 8:55:39 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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We need new Republicans.

No argument there.

35 posted on 09/22/2017 9:02:35 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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You can’t replace what isn’t there in the first place.


36 posted on 09/22/2017 9:05:42 AM PDT by Shady (We WON the Battle, Now let's WIN THE WAR!!!!)
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To: Hojczyk

There is no known cure for Rinoitus.


37 posted on 09/22/2017 9:20:16 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Not sure about a “cure” but what needs to happen is to increase the number of conservatives in the Republican Party through the primaries. It’s simple math. We don’t have the numbers. Increase the numbers and then we have a shot at taking over leadership. Once we have control then there is at least the possibility of things happening in Congress.

But let’s back up. We can’t elect more conservatives unless the voters in those states elect them. There needs to be a more effective way of educating those voters besides the current internet blogs and forums that many don’t even know exist. This means a media alternative to Fox or a conservative takeover of Fox. Also need to be more aggressive in social media and other media instead of staying in a cacoon and ceding territory to leftists.

Bud Fox: “We got think big, guys. We are going after the majors”.


38 posted on 09/22/2017 10:02:37 AM PDT by plain talk
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I personally found it shocking in the lead up to the 2016 primaries that so few people who claim to be activists or interested actually take part in or even have any knowledge of party processes. Generally speaking, a few like-minded people in any neighborhood can take over a party caucus in a non-election year and keep control when it matters more.

There are truly people who believe they are heroes for sacrificing a few minutes in an annoymous voting booth a few times a decade!


39 posted on 09/22/2017 10:09:24 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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Well said! I agree.


40 posted on 09/22/2017 10:30:34 AM PDT by plain talk
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