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5 Dumb GOP Mistakes We Better Fix Before 2020
Townhall.com ^ | November 15, 2018 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 11/15/2018 5:35:02 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin
One thing you can do is get on your local Republican Central Committee. Find out if you can get elected from your Precinct, then rustle up the votes of your Republican neighbors. Once on the Committee, work to vet candidates and weed out the squishes. Your candidates for state house and Senate, governor, etc. are the farm team for US house and Senate and for President.
41 posted on 11/15/2018 7:07:25 AM PST by JoeFromSidney (Colonel (Retired) USAF)
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To: Shadow44
Interesting to see what the left was saying just two years ago:

Latinos Will Never Vote For A Republican, And Other Myths About Hispanics From 2016

42 posted on 11/15/2018 7:08:20 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
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To: squarebarb

Speaking some truths will get you shunned. The GOP is not the grassroots. It never has been and never will be. There are some fine Republicans, but the party is as corrupt as the Democrats.

To put it simply, the GOP is Lucy with the football and the team keeps falling into line to kick it. The party hates Trump because he kicked Lucy in the face and stole the ball. The question is who’s really on his team?


43 posted on 11/15/2018 7:16:44 AM PST by antidisestablishment ( Xenophobia is the only sane response to multiculturalismÂ’s irrational cultural exuberance)
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To: xrmusn
This:

I know most on here probably already have but a good step forward is quit giving money to the RNC.

Followed by this:

WHERE is the RNC?

The second is the result of the first.

44 posted on 11/15/2018 7:16:59 AM PST by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: Chickensoup

how many states beyond NJ have signature comparison as the only way to determine voter id... unless voter rolls book says “ID REQUIRED”?


45 posted on 11/15/2018 7:29:08 AM PST by SMGFan ( .)
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To: Kaslin
So we Normals need to get militant and demand that our GOP Establishment try something new – like learning from its mistakes.

To the contrary, the "normals" need to take over the party. The GOPe is fine with being in the minority and cutting deals with Socialists. There will be no "learning from mistakes" by the GOPe because they are accomplishing exactly what they want to accomplish - disenfranchising conservatives and creating bigger government. Trump has exposed them for the frauds that they are.

46 posted on 11/15/2018 7:31:07 AM PST by Major Matt Mason (Any lover of big government is an enemy of freedom.)
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To: Alberta's Child

I don’t care what some stupid NPR article says. If what your saying is true, then where is this Hispanic Conservative wave in California? There isn’t one, California has been lost forever thanks to Reagan’s amnesty. Just like we lost New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado, and now Texas is in serious danger. All these states used to be GOP strongholds BEFORE the demographics shifted, and now they aren’t.

How many states do we have to lose before people stop pretending this isn’t DELIBERATE policy of crushing the electoral chances of Republicans?

This is just desperate pleading on the scale of “Here’s how Bernie can still win”. I’m not holding my breath because the Hispanic votes went from 80% Democrat to 66% Democrat. The Democrats would have NEVER won a presidential election if our demographics were at the same levels they were prior to 1965.


47 posted on 11/15/2018 7:35:48 AM PST by Shadow44
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To: xrmusn
I realize things ‘take time’ but it does appear that Rs and RNC sat back and let AZ walk away, FL is slipping and sliding and a ‘controversy’ is being raised in GA...

Don't leave out MS. The life-long Democrat that the GOP chose over McDaniel made some stupid remark that could be construed as being racist (not saying it was). That seat should be solid R, but there is still a runoff to be had. With the GOPe's weak performance post-election, nothing is certain.

48 posted on 11/15/2018 7:40:13 AM PST by Major Matt Mason (Any lover of big government is an enemy of freedom.)
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To: LS
Agree.  Politics is a people business.  Trump may get lots of heat for telling it like it is, but even his insults (calling Stormy a "horseface") connects him to his voters.  Honesty, genuineness and good humor is so rare in our society that people gravitate to it.

And hearing from people who have met him in the Oval Office (Scott Adams, Michael Savage) he makes the people he talks to feel very important.

P.S.  Enjoying your tweats, LS.  Don't know how you can keep up to the daily grind of producing them, but much appreciate the great commentary.

Larry Schweikart (@LarrySchweikart) | Twitter

I'd also like to second your endorsement of the brilliant essay, Biological Leninism.

49 posted on 11/15/2018 7:42:52 AM PST by poconopundit
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To: Shadow44
The biggest transformation of this country toward socialism took place in the 1930s and 1940s under FDR. And I would argue that suburban America owes its existence to two of the biggest socialist programs in U.S. history outside of Social Security and Medicare -- the G.I. Bill and the development of the Interstate Highway System.

Republicans are perfectly capable of winning elections as long as their message resonates with people who work and pay taxes.

The more important trend we should be looking at here is urbanization, not demographics. People who live in cities are socialist by nature simply because their lives are built around having other people take care of 90% of their needs. That is what has been driving some of the most destructive policies we've seen in this country in recent decades -- including "free trade" and mass immigration. Basically, people who aren't allowed to own slaves will figure out other ways to get access to them.

50 posted on 11/15/2018 7:44:53 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
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To: Cowboy Bob

My God! she is an awful candidate. She needs to be in CA running an animal shelter


51 posted on 11/15/2018 7:46:27 AM PST by magna carta
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To: Kaslin

GOP definitely did not do their best recruiting...

Of course they also COMPLETLEY yielded the entire upper midwest... didn’t even bother to take the field there.


52 posted on 11/15/2018 7:47:01 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Kaslin
Lesson Two: Be for something – specifically, conservatism. Nail down the base by not buying into the Fredocon notion that true conservatives should be ashamed of being conservative. Lesson Five: Candidate quality matters. No more losers.

#5 Can be blamed on FAILED entrenched establishment party chairman - the party is full of patronage hacks at every level. This is how McCain and Dole made it, also how so many terrible Congressional candidates get chosen.

53 posted on 11/15/2018 7:48:13 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Chickensoup

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_ID_laws_in_the_United_States#State-by-state_requirements


54 posted on 11/15/2018 8:09:45 AM PST by SMGFan ( .)
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To: going hot

The second is the result of the first.
= = = = = = = =

Granted...but it is their own fault AND they still expect ‘us’ to fund them

Catch 22 at the very least


55 posted on 11/15/2018 8:11:18 AM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)Success is not final-failure is not fatal-it is the courage to continue that counts.WChurchill)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Right.

It is not just about the candidate, it is more about what the candidate can do for the voter, that is what the voter wants to hear.

That said though, Arizona needs to be challenged, Sinema is winning on fraud.

Also wondering if the Democrats could have used the online University, University of Phoenix in some way to manufacture votes, among their tactics.


56 posted on 11/15/2018 8:13:00 AM PST by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: CondorFlight

Learn from their tricks.


57 posted on 11/15/2018 8:22:36 AM PST by redhead (PRAYfor little ones in pedo pipeline: child livestock: raped, tortured, and satanically sacrificed.)
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To: LS

I couldn’t agree more with this analysis.

I could sense James was scripted even through the TV set.


58 posted on 11/15/2018 8:29:31 AM PST by Disestablishmentarian
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To: VanDeKoik

I am originally from Michigan but now live in Tennessee. We have seen John James ads and other “news” events featuring him. To me he came off wooden and canned talking his “check boxes”. He did not seem personable at all.


59 posted on 11/15/2018 9:16:08 AM PST by xvq2er
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To: Alberta's Child

You’re twisting yourself into pretzels to ignore the obvious. Urbanization is not the cause of this. Southern California was urbanized in the 1970s and 1980s, and it was a beautiful place to live in. Now it isn’t. Detroit used to be one of the richest cities per capita and now it’s in ruins. Even Minneapolis used to be nice, and now it has turned into little Mogadishu.

Immigration is the cause of all of this and we would have ZERO of these problems if these people weren’t even here in the first place. I seriously find it hard to believe you don’t already know this.


60 posted on 11/15/2018 9:43:34 AM PST by Shadow44
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