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The Betrayal of Ken Cuccinelli
National Review ^ | 11/5/13 | Maggie Gallagher

Posted on 11/06/2013 6:54:56 AM PST by cotton1706

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To: cotton1706

Don’t hold your breath. The gop-e will still say that Cuccinelli was unelectable.


61 posted on 11/06/2013 7:34:29 AM PST by Shery (in APO Land)
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To: pgkdan
The GOP hates conservatives. I'll give and vote for a candidate, but I give nothing to the GOP any more. They aren't my party, although I voted straight line Republican for many years.

They threw away my congressional district several times, preferring Gabby Giffords to a conservative.

62 posted on 11/06/2013 7:34:47 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Liberals are like locusts...)
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To: pgkdan

Bill Bolling really f’ed himself too. Had he accepted reality and endorsed and strongly supported Cuccinelli, given the ObamaCare fiasco (which drove Cuccinelli’s final surge), he’d be in a great position to defeat Warner for Senate next year.

Now there’s really no one to challenge Warner. Cuccinelli isn’t well positioned to mount another campaign right now. McDonnells leaving with a cloud of corruption over his head. And Bolling can’t expect, ever, support from a Conservative base he sold down the river.


63 posted on 11/06/2013 7:37:05 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: Jedidah

Christie couldn’t pass vetting by the Romney team so he had a hissy fit and campaigned for Obama instead.

Wanna bet Fatass’s NSA files will be released by the RATS once he’s the GOP-e’s candidate?


64 posted on 11/06/2013 7:38:17 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: cotton1706
Some serious soul-searching should be taking place among the anti-tea-party faction.

You have to have a soul to search first.

The GOP-E has made it abundantly clear that if a Tea Party candidate beats the RINO in the primary, they would rather the Dem win in the general.

65 posted on 11/06/2013 7:39:49 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: IbJensen

Actually, the 6% that still voted Libertarian even knowing nothing more about their candidate than that he took lots of LIBERAL money, are what elected McAwful.

Libertarian is rapidly becoming a dirtier word than Liberal.


66 posted on 11/06/2013 7:40:45 AM PST by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: Starboard

“The GOP wants our money and our votes, but not our principles.”

Which is why the GOP no longer gets my money OR my vote. And it will not unless it decides it wants to be an effective opposition party to the Dems.


67 posted on 11/06/2013 7:41:05 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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To: chris37

“I hate them quite a bit more than the dems now.”

If nothing else, the Democrats are at least honest about their hostility to conservatives.


68 posted on 11/06/2013 7:45:05 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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To: cardinal4

They are worse. At least you know what you are getting with the Dems


69 posted on 11/06/2013 7:45:05 AM PST by rocketmag
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

Yep.

The GOP is so thoroughly dishonest and disgusting.

I really can’t think of words negative enough to describe what I think of the GOP.


70 posted on 11/06/2013 7:46:36 AM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Never give a penny to the GOPe umbrella organizations.
Donate directly to TEA Party candidates that you support.”

Yup


71 posted on 11/06/2013 7:47:22 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE ("If guns cause crime, there must be something wrong with mine." -Ted Nugent)
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To: chris37

I called the RNC office in Washington.

202-863-8500

They need feedback. Lots of fun.


72 posted on 11/06/2013 7:49:01 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: House Atreides

The GOP is the banker’s sock puppet and has been since Teddy Roosevelt. A Tea Party-libertarian alliance could bring the GOP back to its republican roots. You remember republican, right- the guys who were anti monarchist, anti globalist, anti imperialist, anti oligarch, anti plutocrat, anti aristocrat, anti feudalist? BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING BANKING


73 posted on 11/06/2013 7:49:04 AM PST by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: cotton1706
This was a winnable election. How did we give this away to Terry McAuliffe? Some serious soul-searching should be taking place among the anti-tea-party faction.

Yes. The people leading the gOp, and all of their 'consultants' who are simply WRONG, are the ones in need of some serious soul-searching.

The only chance that they have to remain a serious and successful political party will be to embrace, not betray, conservatism as represented by the 'Tea Party' movement and the political candidates that they are backing.

Bolling v. Cuccinelli was just the first match on the fight card. There's many more to come. Don't make the same mistake again, or go the way of the Whigs.

74 posted on 11/06/2013 7:49:43 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: skeeter

“You know the MSM will leap to the GOPe’s aid if they sense trouble from the right.
They wouldn’t want anything bad happening to their favorite stooges...”

Where does everyone think McCain’s candidacy came from? He was an example of the media hijacking a primary.


75 posted on 11/06/2013 7:53:34 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

...unless it decides it wants to be an effective opposition party to the Dems
************

I just don’t see that as happening. Its not in the GOP’s DNA. It is never going to change.


76 posted on 11/06/2013 7:54:24 AM PST by Starboard
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To: dfwgator
Even the Democrats wanted Christie to win....Christie wins without a dime from the RNC.

They want him to win now just to blow him up in 2016.

77 posted on 11/06/2013 7:55:02 AM PST by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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To: Nervous Tick; sickoflibs
Seven percent to Sarvis is what sank Cuccinelli.

Sarvis was funded by an Obama bundler from, I am sad to say, (Austin) Texas. He was a distraction created by the Democrats and it helped. But the GOPe pulled away from Cuccinelli, too, and sent their money to Cristie instead.

Christie didn't need it. I assume they were simply padding his coffers to prepare for a 2016 Presidential run.

I will not stay home, but I will not vote for a non-Conservative again. The down-ballot people will have my support. I will only donate directly to like-minded candidates. I have no party.

78 posted on 11/06/2013 7:56:04 AM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: ladyjane

They ain’t listening.

But I expect they will like being swept from office in a year.


79 posted on 11/06/2013 7:56:10 AM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: SamuraiScot

Not at all. National Review continues to let a few genuine conservatives write on their pages, but they have taken an editorial direction that leans far more towards the GOP-e than the conservative wing of the party. Andrew McCarthy has been a voice crying in the wilderness at NRO, taking on such neo-conservative stalwarts as Charles Krauthammer (an NRO favourite) as demonstrative of how establishment Republicans have embraced Big Government. National Review will feign distaste with the result in Virginia, while continuing to break bread with the quislings.


80 posted on 11/06/2013 7:58:20 AM PST by littleharbour ("All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. ~ James Madison)
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