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Why Don't Republicans Identify What They Are Fighting?
Townhall.com ^ | December 15, 2015 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 12/15/2015 1:53:31 PM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 12/15/2015 1:53:31 PM PST by Kaslin
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Because they are not fighting?


2 posted on 12/15/2015 1:55:25 PM PST by null and void (muslims don't kill people, Climate Change kills people!)
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Because they (the GOP) are hoping to capture the “Islamist terrorist” vote like they hope to capture the “Illegal Alien” vote, at least one of the times the illegal votes this election.


3 posted on 12/15/2015 2:05:04 PM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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Because the vichy rino leadership want to be like, and act like, the democrats. No surprise there.


4 posted on 12/15/2015 2:08:07 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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They do, or at least the leadership does; they are fighting Conservatives.


5 posted on 12/15/2015 2:17:23 PM PST by Truth29
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It’s intellectually easier to have a villan with a name and face.


6 posted on 12/15/2015 2:19:28 PM PST by joesbucks
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I just spent about an hour watching youtube videos from this guy named William Mount? Anyone know of this guy? This guy redefines conspiracy theorist. I’m sure he could answer the question.... It’s entertaining, and a little sick all at the same time....


7 posted on 12/15/2015 2:20:11 PM PST by kjam22
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Republicans -- from the highest ranking politicians to rank and file members of the party -- fight Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton and all other Democrats. But they don't fight the left and leftism.

The author repeatedly writes "conservatism and the Republican Party” or "conservatives and Republicans" as if they are inseparable or the same thing. They are not.

There are conservative Republicans but Republicans in general are not conservatives especially Republican politicians.

Almost all Republicans politician are Leftist. And only less so than the Democrats by a small degree.

Republican politicians much like the Democrats like to grow government. They sell influence to those who wish to grow government in a way that benefits them. And like Democrats they are loath to kill a useless or even destructive program.

I am a conservative and a Republican but I am only a Republican because I know that conservatives must capture and change the Republican Party from within just as the Communist captured and changed the Democrat Party from within.

I however believe that it will take conservatives much longer to change the Republican Party in to a freedom loving conservative party than it did the communist to change the Democrat Party. Inertia favored the communist and still does.

8 posted on 12/15/2015 2:23:33 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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Republicans are fighting themselves! They hate conservatives.


9 posted on 12/15/2015 2:24:50 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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Prager is right as usual. I applaud him for using the term “leftism” instead of “liberalism”. Leftism encompasses the whole gamut of the left, from communists to so called “progressives”. In fact none of them are really “liberal” in the classic sense of believing in liberty.


10 posted on 12/15/2015 2:27:40 PM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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Thank you for referencing that article Kaslin. A usual, please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"They, too, almost never identify what they are fighting -- namely, leftism and the left the Constitution. "

There! Fixed it.

Patriots, please bear in mind that the GOP became extinct a long time ago imo. What the GOPe and he Left are is the ”conservative” and liberal front ends, respectively, for the corrupt, Constitution-ignoring Washington cartel.

11 posted on 12/15/2015 2:27:55 PM PST by Amendment10
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I believe you’re right and in the eyes of the Left, rino Republicans are contemptible useful idiots. On the other hand, in the eyes of ISIS, Leftists are probably viewed the same way.


12 posted on 12/15/2015 2:28:51 PM PST by spirited irish
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I think Prager says “conservatives and Republicans” precisely because he does know the difference, though I doubt he would consider most Republicans “leftists”. I don’t think they are either. Nor do most leftists. Neither are they conservatives. In fact they don’t really care about ideology. They say conservative sounding things to get elected, but don’t actually care about them. They care about money and power, not ideology.


13 posted on 12/15/2015 2:33:59 PM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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PS. The left on the other hand cares about money, power and ideology.


14 posted on 12/15/2015 2:35:45 PM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: spirited irish

Sure, everyone not them are just infidels.


15 posted on 12/15/2015 2:38:16 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Kaslin
They do.

Privately, anyway.

But a campaign against "leftism" doesn't have much appeal to the broader public.

Purely ideological campaigns leave most people cold.

16 posted on 12/15/2015 2:42:48 PM PST by x
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Why? They don’t know... which is why they don’t fight.


17 posted on 12/15/2015 2:54:41 PM PST by Ray76
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Why is Obama always talking about Icicle? What the heck is that???


18 posted on 12/15/2015 2:57:32 PM PST by kaehurowing
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Rinos are compromised. Remember McLame posing with “moderate” Syrian Rebels who were really ISIS and Al Queda? The rino leadership is complicit with the traitorous regime in supporting and funding our enemies.


19 posted on 12/15/2015 3:06:42 PM PST by grumpygresh (We don't have Democrats and Republicans, we have the Faustian uni-party)
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They are handcuffed by political correctness and their own illusions.

We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with violent radical Sharia law advocates. We are at war with Islamunists. Those that violently advocate Sharia law.

We don’t care if they want to worship somebody in a dirty turban and unkept beard. We care that they want to impose Sharia law upon us. They want to impose Islamunism upon us and displace our Just Constitution and 200 years of American Jurisprudence and freedoms.


20 posted on 12/15/2015 3:09:54 PM PST by Fhios (How about we call it a a war on sharia law?)
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