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Don’t Try to Blackmail Us on Nafta, Mr. President
Wall Street Journal ^ | May 10, 2018 | Pat Toomey

Posted on 05/11/2018 5:23:40 AM PDT by reaganaut1

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To: jonrick46
P.S. -- The 60% score posted for Pat Toomey is actually the fourth highest among the 20 Senators and House members rated by Conservative Review. By Pennsylvania standards, he's about the best you're ever going to get.
21 posted on 05/11/2018 6:40:14 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: reaganaut1

You support all the Bush League Republicans and want someone else in 2020.

You have made yourself clear that you do not support MAGA.


22 posted on 05/11/2018 7:21:05 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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To: headstamp 2

Toomey is definitely GOPe


23 posted on 05/11/2018 7:22:15 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Q is Admiral Michael S. Rogers)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Primary him out.
He supports gun control and no border control or interior enforcement.

If we do not get rid of the Bush League Republicans they WILL give away our country.


24 posted on 05/11/2018 7:22:43 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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To: reaganaut1

I support President Trump over Toomey 24/7.

NAFTA sucks!

It was designed to diminish America’s wealth & manufacturing.

Anyone who supports NAFTA IMO is not supporting MAGA at all!


25 posted on 05/11/2018 7:23:26 AM PDT by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

Especially since the Wall Street Journal has been a mouthpiece of the Cheap Labor Express for decades.


26 posted on 05/11/2018 7:24:12 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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To: Alberta's Child

Conservative Review is not the benchmark I would use.
Levin believes that Anwar Al-Awlaki’s kids born in Yemen to one citizen parent are eligible to be President of the USA.


27 posted on 05/11/2018 7:27:12 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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To: Lurkinanloomin
Maybe Rick Santorum could run against Toomey in a primary.

That's a good way to make sure that seat goes to the Democrats for at least two decades.

28 posted on 05/11/2018 7:29:47 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: TheStickman

I don’t think you really understand NAFTA at all, but then maybe that’s expecting too much on a political website where rants make for better reading than clear thinking. LOL.


29 posted on 05/11/2018 7:30:59 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: reaganaut1

Pat Toomey is a total RINO of course he loves NAFTA.


30 posted on 05/11/2018 7:35:06 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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To: Alberta's Child
I think you are correct. It may have been a knee jerk reaction to throw Toomey's low Conservative Reviewscore just to illuminate his conservative standing. I could not check how he ranked in the overall picture. For some reason it mixed Senators with Representatives.

I checked his Conservative Union score just to see if there is a correlation. His 2017 score was 84% along with Rubio, Crapo, Risch, and Moran. What is remarkable is Flake got a 92% rating, up from last year's rating of 79%. If you look at those ratings, there are 5 groups at the top. Toomey is in the 5th group from the top. Toomey is actually down in the 2017 rating from 96% in 2016. For Pennsylvania, he is pretty good.

If you looked at McCain's rating of 57%, then you have something. It would be interesting to see Toomey's score for 2018.

31 posted on 05/11/2018 7:46:43 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Trump continues to have all the right enemies.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

What do you expect? The big money donors to the GOP are still open border, free trade types... they happily extract and export america’s wealth and take a cut for their back pocket.

Toomey stating he wants NAFTA as is, is beyond stupid.... Especially in the upper midwest where folks have been watching their towns go down the crapper for decades now thanks to “Free Trade”.

What are the modifications to the new NAFTA that Toomey finds so offensive?... He really doesn’t offer a reason... other than tired old “free trade” mantra that destroyed those folks homes in the first place.


32 posted on 05/11/2018 7:56:01 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Alberta's Child

Nah just have Santorum run again, so he can lose by 20+ points again.


33 posted on 05/11/2018 7:58:33 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Alberta's Child

“I don’t think you really understand NAFTA at all, but then maybe that’s expecting too much on a political website where rants make for better reading than clear thinking.”

Thanks for that lovely fallacy & have a nice day anyway.

NAFTA is bad for America but good for China, IMO.

I prefer our trade policies be good for America 1st.


34 posted on 05/11/2018 8:05:37 AM PDT by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: HamiltonJay; TheStickman
Canada and Mexico are the two largest foreign trading partners for exports from Pennsylvania.

Do you think there's a possibility Toomey knows a few things about the state he represents?

35 posted on 05/11/2018 8:29:15 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: jonrick46
Some of these ratings are misleading because they're based entirely on what someone defines as a "conservative" side of an issue.

Someone who is an open-borders advocate, for example, might get higher "conservative" rating than someone who wants to restrict immigration.

The same goes for defense spending. I don't think there's anything conservative about pissing away hundreds of billions of dollars on a U.S. military that hasn't been operating under constitutional constraints in decades.

36 posted on 05/11/2018 8:35:23 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: reaganaut1
"... leaving no Nafta at all."

Worth considering, hasn't America carried the mother lode in that organization since its inception?

37 posted on 05/11/2018 8:41:06 AM PDT by yoe
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To: Alberta's Child

“Do you think there’s a possibility Toomey knows a few things about the state he represents? “

I never presume to know what someone else does or does not know.


38 posted on 05/11/2018 8:46:18 AM PDT by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: TheStickman
Neither would I ... but a Republican like Toomey who wins statewide elections in a historically Democratic state like PA probably knows a thing or two about his constituents.

I'd also suggest that it's not outlandish for a U.S. Senator to defend a trade agreement with his own state's two largest export trading partners.

39 posted on 05/11/2018 8:48:25 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: Alberta's Child

I want America out of NAFTA, period.

Any GOP senator who wants NAFTA to continue can piss up a rope for all I care.


40 posted on 05/11/2018 8:55:37 AM PDT by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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