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Disjointed Prognostications for the GOP

First off, purge the Tea Party of the evangelicals. Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Justin Amash are not in the same camp as Sarah Palin. Goes the same for Ted Cruz. Problem is that most of these evangelicals adopted the Tea Party moniker to get elected. Until the Republican Party becomes more of a sane Libertarian Party versus a Constitutional Party light as it is now, the dems will continue to clean there clocks.
 
Top SC Repubs are already pimping Rand.

we gone.
 
Hello said:
Can you say more about this?
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He used a section of law geared toward humanitarian emergencies (like natural disasters displacing large foreign populations from their native land) to ram through his amnesty by declaration. Legal, but dubious
 
I just want some

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The tea party candidates did not lose because they are tea party candidates. They lost because they said stupid things owing to their lack of political refinement and savvy. In the meantime, you have Cherokee chief squaw up in Mass who won her race against a clear moderate and better candidate, point being that "extremism" in this case seems to be cherry picked and ignored if the candidate actually wins.
 
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:noidea: I'm always skeptical about any of their "The Republicans need to do THIS" suggestions. Why would they tell Republicans what they need to do to win? That's like a football coach mailing his opponent his gameplan and his team's weaknesses.
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It's so dumb. And if you notice the suggestion is always that they need to get more liberal. Well, thanks for that. What good have moderates done for us? How could W, libs fav person in the world, be classified as anything other than moderate? He spent bucket loads but cut taxes, didn't really do that much socially. Moderate


Yes, Mittens had to get more conservative on everything to get elected, because he wasnt conservative at all before. Caving on social issues also isn't a Tea Party thing, it's been happening for a long time. The only Tea Party people I actually know are furious about spending and the disregard the country has for the Constitution.
 
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That having been said, Romney is currently tabbing fewer votes than McCain did in 2008. That may well change when they are all tabulated, but this is shocking to me. I mean, shocking to the point where I can't believe it. There was zero enthusiasm for McCain in 2008. What little there was came with the brief boost he got from Palin. Enthusiasm for Obama was understandably down from 2008, but where are the GOP votes if the GOTV effort this time was so much stronger than it was in 2008? Does not compute!
 
EatLeadCommie said:
The tea party candidates did not lose because they are tea party candidates. They lost because they said stupid things owing to their lack of political refinement and savvy. In the meantime, you have Cherokee chief squaw up in Mass who won her race against a clear moderate and better candidate, point being that "extremism" in this case seems to be cherry picked and ignored if the candidate actually wins.
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If you like Babara Boxer, you're gonna love Warren.
 
EatLeadCommie said:
That having been said, Romney is currently tabbing fewer votes than McCain did in 2008. That may well change when they are all tabulated, but this is shocking to me. I mean, shocking to the point where I can't believe it. There was zero enthusiasm for McCain in 2008. What little there was came with the brief boost he got from Palin. Enthusiasm for Obama was understandably down from 2008, but where are the GOP votes if the GOTV effort this time was so much stronger than it was in 2008? Does not compute!
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We just might be outnumbered.
 
EatLeadCommie said:
The tea party candidates did not lose because they are tea party candidates. They lost because they said stupid things owing to their lack of political refinement and savvy. In the meantime, you have Cherokee chief squaw up in Mass who won her race against a clear moderate and better candidate, point being that "extremism" in this case seems to be cherry picked and ignored if the candidate actually wins.
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It's okay to run extremists in far left states like Massachusetts.

The problem with the GOP is demographics. If they continue to cede Hispanics to the democrats at a clip of 71% to 28%, we are never going to win another national election. We can't win on only the white vote.

I'm not saying get more liberal. I'm saying you can be prolife without wanting to cut planned parenthood, ban contraception and make abortion illegal. I'm saying have an immigration plan that isn't self deportation and marginalizing Hispanics. If the GOP was smart, they would've supported Bush's plan in 2007.
 
EatLeadCommie said:
That having been said, Romney is currently tabbing fewer votes than McCain did in 2008. That may well change when they are all tabulated, but this is shocking to me. I mean, shocking to the point where I can't believe it. There was zero enthusiasm for McCain in 2008. What little there was came with the brief boost he got from Palin. Enthusiasm for Obama was understandably down from 2008, but where are the GOP votes if the GOTV effort this time was so much stronger than it was in 2008? Does not compute!
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When your vote depends on the olds, lots of them die in 4 years.
 
greekdeac2011 said:
It's okay to run extremists in far left states like Massachusetts.

The problem with the GOP is demographics. If they continue to cede Hispanics to the democrats at a clip of 71% to 28%, we are never going to win another national election. We can't win on only the white vote.

I'm not saying get more liberal. I'm saying you can be prolife without wanting to cut planned parenthood, ban contraception and make abortion illegal. I'm saying have an immigration plan that isn't self deportation and marginalizing Hispanics. If the GOP was smart, they would've supported Bush's plan in 2007.
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This...or you could continue to win the Confederacy.
 
Hello said:
We just might be outnumbered.
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Yeah I think we're just headed to a socialist European type society. Which is working out great for them, obviously, with nearly everyone completely broke. Great path for us
 
We haven't seen anything yet from the RW freak out machine.

When Obama leaves office with:

5% or so unemployment
a robust economy
Ending Iraq and Afghanistan
Creating more equality for women and gays
Most of the country loving Obamacare -which they will when they realize what it is.
Leaves with Clinton-esque popularity with all but the racist extremes

This is will be hilarious to watch.
 
deacvision7 said:
Ding!

The country has moved left and will continue to do so. It's called Progress.

Red.
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I believe that a winning portion of the electorate will vote for a tolerant, fiscally-conservative politician.
 
RJKarl said:
We haven't seen anything yet from the RW freak out machine.

When Obama leaves office with:

5% or so unemployment
a robust economy
Ending Iraq and Afghanistan
Creating more equality for women and gays
Most of the country loving Obamacare -which they will when they realize what it is.
Leaves with Clinton-esque popularity with all but the racist extremes

This is will be hilarious to watch.
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Yes it's going to be weird seeing something that "most people love" not being loved by most people in this made up freak out
 
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