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Topic: Worst. Advice. Ever. |
Worst. Advice. Ever.
Mother Jones, by Kevin Drum
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 11/18/2012 2:02:05 PM
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| Over the past couple of weeks, a lot of people have had a lot of advice for the Republican Party. Compromise more. Compromise less. Appeal to Hispanics. Stick to conservative fundamentals. Nominate better candidates. Improve your ground game. Etc. Some of this advice is good, and some of it is probably not so good. But I´d like to congratulate Charlotte Allen for possibly the worst advice ever offered to a party in defeat. This is truly — um, hold on. Sorry. Revise and extend. What I meant was that this is the best advice ever offered to a party in defeat.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Mass Minority, 11/18/2012 2:18:53 PM (No. 9022306)
One for the ages directly from the comments of the truly enlightened (and so much smarter thanm us)Mother Jones reader.
"Put it this way, anyone who talks about an ´Obamacare spending blowout" is so obviously ignorant of fiscal reality that anything else they say can be safely disregarded."
Obamacare actually reduces the deficit don´tcha know.
The more I read the more depressed I get. Hopw did America become this stupid? (I know, I know, It was Bush´s fault).
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
miceal, 11/18/2012 2:38:48 PM (No. 9022323)
I´ve turned my back on these people....
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ketchuplover, 11/18/2012 2:59:29 PM (No. 9022350)
Please don´t miss the link to the LA Times in this short article. That´s where our commentary should center. I liked the article in the link by Charlotte Allen a lot. Sarah has not taken her eye off the prize. In the last two elections (2010 and 2012), she has shrewdly supported conservative candidates and built up her base and credibility as well as racking up a bunch of IOUs from the newbies.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird, 11/18/2012 3:14:11 PM (No. 9022367)
This dumb little piece by leftist Kevin Drum refers to this Los Angeles Times article, posted yesterday here. Go and read and post there and leave this fool Drum in the dust:
"Hey GOP, take the Palin cure"
http://lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=712449
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Spidey, 11/18/2012 3:30:03 PM (No. 9022381)
I´d laugh myself into a coma if Sarah started running early next year,going around fundraising.She could demagogue everything Obama is doing in the process.
Of course you´d have to hide the sharp objects from the GOP establishment.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Susannah, 11/18/2012 3:33:30 PM (No. 9022387)
I´m pretty sure Allen was writing with her tongue in her cheek. The reference to Palin´s "impressive gay fanboy" base would indicate as much.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
4Justice, 11/18/2012 3:46:05 PM (No. 9022403)
Lefties think they are so much better and smarter than the rest of us. Yet they know NOTHING about economics or finance. They want to do anything they can to completely destroy the GOP and make us powerless. They want 100% control of everything and make us their slaves. The left is pure evil.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
janylou, 11/18/2012 4:23:37 PM (No. 9022449)
Don´t you love all the advice from the dims about how we can win elections? They will destroy us just as they are destroying the country!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
FormerDem, 11/18/2012 4:27:01 PM (No. 9022455)
Sarah.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chumley, 11/18/2012 4:38:30 PM (No. 9022474)
They are SO educated and wise. I grovel at the feet of my smirking dope smoking betters.
Why does Sarah scare everyone so much? Both the left and the right have used every rotten trick in the book to destroy her, and even in humiliating defeat for the R´s, they continue. Why is that? What power does she wield that causes both sides to quake in their boots and need a change of pants?
The future may tell, and I hope we last long enough to see it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MissMolly, 11/18/2012 4:42:30 PM (No. 9022484)
I didn´t see anyone "quaking". I did see a lot of fun-poking, however.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
saguni, 11/18/2012 4:55:54 PM (No. 9022502)
Lefties think they are so much better and smarter than the rest of us. Yet they quote Tina Fey and attribute it to Sarah Palin. Here´s a hint...don´t look to Saturday Night Live for hard (factual) news.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
A Balrog of Morgoth, 11/18/2012 5:13:13 PM (No. 9022521)
#11 reads too much Vanity Fair
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Dixie, 11/18/2012 8:48:27 PM (No. 9022761)
I´d just love to see a Sarah Palin / Hillary Clinton series of debates.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Yephora, 11/18/2012 9:01:42 PM (No. 9022776)
Sarah Palin + voting integrity for the Win.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bighambone, 11/18/2012 9:04:37 PM (No. 9022780)
When the liberal Democrats and their media allies give the Republicans political advise concerning the future, if the Republicans take that advise they will be committing long-term political suicide.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Brittany, 11/19/2012 8:31:23 AM (No. 9023321)
Democratic hubris. I love Sarah but the MSM has destroyed her chances. What the Dems (as George Will said) have not noticed is the Tea Party creeping up on them from the bottom: governors, state legislators, Fox News, the internet, radio talk, etc. I just hope that it is not too late
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