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The Way Back
Barnstable Patriot [Hyannis, MA], by Steve Tefft
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Posted By:swami, 12/1/2012 8:13:06 AM
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What now, Republicans? Since their stunning electoral loss, the GOP has been bombarded – from without and within – with analyses blaming their defeat on an array of problems. The Republican base has become “too old, male and white.” They are technologically inept. Mitt Romney was too patrician. The GOP is caught in a demographic tailspin from which it will never return. Much of this is overwrought. The truth is simple, as it usually is. Romney ran a weak campaign whose strategists badly misread the electorate (which explains their absolute shock at losing).
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
sorosisbehindit, 12/1/2012 8:38:03 AM (No. 9042641)
HOW NOT TO FIGHT Don´t fight a street thug in your coat and tie. (the gentlemanly approach is neither effective nor admired) Don´t listen to the advise of your enemies girlfriend on the sideline. (the press) Don´t stiff arm and insult the strong young guys who come along side to help you fight. (Ron Paul fans)
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iowaDad, 12/1/2012 8:39:46 AM (No. 9042647)
The extreme concern of the GOPers is not that the GOP is in a tail-spin; it is that the US and Western Civilization is about to end, destroyed by debt, laziness and greed.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Udanja99, 12/1/2012 8:45:19 AM (No. 9042652)
Don´t forget Islam, #2.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
tonyl, 12/1/2012 8:49:07 AM (No. 9042659)
Mitt did nothing wrong. The country is broken.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
liberty316, 12/1/2012 8:50:35 AM (No. 9042663)
The problem isn´t conservatives, our ideas or our approach. The problem is that about half of all Americans are morons too frightened of life to be able to consider living without big nanny government to coddle them.
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TheMotherCO, 12/1/2012 9:13:34 AM (No. 9042709)
I am weary of the aftermath know it alls. I hope that the dweebs that voted for the flapeared one suffer as much pain as possible. The idea that Mitt was not good and was too patrician is plain silly or this clod was not watching. Mitt would have won if so call third parties, like paul, huntsman and 13 other candidates had not been on the ballot. What in hell did they think they were doing?
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andyboy, 12/1/2012 9:22:57 AM (No. 9042732)
In the very same election Romney just lost, the Tea Party-energized House GOP won huge (just as it did in 2010, and as it will likely do again in 2014).
We can wring our hands and lament that "there are more of them than there are of us." Or maybe we can drop this "electable RINO" nonsense and try running a true Conservative for President for a change. Reagan won two landslide victories, if I am not mistaken.
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Stopstoreload, 12/1/2012 10:09:31 AM (No. 9042842)
Here´s a message for everyone in the nation who is not a Democratic voter: If you don´t vote for the Republican nominee and the evil Democrats vote for theirs, they will win.
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NYbob, 12/1/2012 2:20:11 PM (No. 9043216)
What difference does anything make when you meekly walk away from EVERY polling place in Philadelphia for hours on election day? A crucial swing state and you allow some thugs to eject you? Not even a fist fight? No coverage, no comments then or now? No camcorders, sheriffs, SEALS or anything at the polling place where the punk New Panther brandished a nightstick last election? They were back blocking doorways this election, laughing at the cowards at the RNC and Pennsylvania who sit by while they steal PA right in front of you.
The organization, the message, all of that could have been better, but taking a stand on voting fraud, voting intimidation, denial of military votes, should have been done for 12 years. TOO late now.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl, 12/1/2012 4:08:56 PM (No. 9043355)
Romney did run a weak campaign - he seemed more intent on not losing than on winning. His commercials (and living in a swing state, I saw them all) were weak and seemed to hit one theme only - jobs. He never pointed out how gas prices have doubled under the Won, or how The Won gave all his cronies handouts, or his promise to Putin,the Keystone Pipeline or any number of other things the Kenyan did. He deserved to lose.
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Terror´s Return
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Barnstable Patriot [Hyannis, MA], by Steve Tefft
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Posted By: swami- 4/26/2013 4:25:05 PM
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I´m surprised only that it took this long. We´d gone 11 years, 7 months, 4 days and 6 hours since the September 11th attacks without a major, successful, Islam-based, civilian-targeted terror attack on American soil. Oh, they tried; Faisal Shahzad´s thwarted Times Square car bomb – strikingly close in composition to the pair of pressure-cooker explosives that shattered the Boston Marathon – was perhaps the most visible of failed attacks, along with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s non-exploding underwear. But the fact that we’ve gone so long between major attacks is a mystery,
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The Way Back
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Barnstable Patriot [Hyannis, MA], by Steve Tefft
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Posted By: swami- 12/1/2012 8:13:06 AM
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What now, Republicans? Since their stunning electoral loss, the GOP has been bombarded – from without and within – with analyses blaming their defeat on an array of problems. The Republican base has become “too old, male and white.” They are technologically inept. Mitt Romney was too patrician. The GOP is caught in a demographic tailspin from which it will never return. Much of this is overwrought. The truth is simple, as it usually is. Romney ran a weak campaign whose strategists badly misread the electorate (which explains their absolute shock at losing).
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Anthony Weiner announces NYC mayor run
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Politico, by Kevin Robillard
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 5/22/2013 6:06:40 AM
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Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose career in public life came to an abrupt end when he sent lewd pictures to a college student on Twitter, jumped back into politics on Wednesday by announcing a bid for mayor of New York City. “Look, I’ve made some big mistakes and I know I’ve let a lot of people down,” the Democrat said in a 2-minute video announcing his bid. “But I’ve also learned some tough lessons. I’m running for mayor because I’ve been fighting for the middle class and those struggling to make it for my entire life.
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A Crack in the IRS Dam
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/21/2013 10:50:44 PM
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The dam protecting the IRS scandal began to crack today when Lois Lerner, the IRS official who announced, and apologized for, the improper singling out of conservative-leaning organizations by IRS employees under her command, announced through her criminal defense lawyer that she will not testify as scheduled tomorrow before the House Oversight Committee. Rather, she will assert her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. This marks an enormous milestone in the IRS investigation. It can now be taken as more or less established that crimes were committed by Obama administration employees. Lerner’s lawyer tried to minimize the significance
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Man questioned in Boston Marathon bombing shot, killed by FBI
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WCBV-TV [Boston], by Staff
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/22/2013 7:21:44 AM
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One of two men allegedly being questioned in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings was shot and killed by an FBI agent in Florida on Tuesday, (Snip)A friend of Ibragim Todashev said he and Todashev were being investigated as part of the Boston bombings. He said Todashev, 27, knew bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev because both were MMA fighters. The man claims he and Todashev were interviewed by the FBI for nearly three hours on Tuesday. The friend said he left the interview, and when he came back to the apartment he found that there had been a shooting.
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Top IRS official will invoke Fifth Amendment
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Los Angeles Times, by Richard Simon and Joseph Tanfani
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 5/21/2013 3:53:35 PM
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WASHINGTON – A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups. Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won’t answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening – or why she didn’t reveal it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor 3rd. Lerner was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight committee Wednesday.
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Darrell Issa: Lois Lerner lost her rights
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Politico, by Rachel Bade
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/22/2013 3:34:05 PM
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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said embattled IRS official Lois Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment rights and will be hauled back to appear before his panel again. The California Republican said Lerner’s Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination was voided when she gave an opening statement this morning denying any wrongdoing and professing pride in her government service. “When I asked her her questions from the very beginning, I did so so she could assert her rights prior to any statement,” Issa told POLITICO. “She chose not to do so — so she waived.”
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Howard Dean: ‘Benghazi is a Laughable Joke’
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National Review Online, by Andrew Johnson
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 11:59:15 AM
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Former Democratic National committee chairman Howard Dean considers the controversy over Benghazi a “joke” and “silly.” “Benghazi is a laughable joke,” Dean proclaimed twice in a discussion with Republican National Committee communications chairman Sean Spicer last week. “With all due respect, governor, when four Americans die serving this country, that’s not a joke, sir,” Spicer responded. “Oh, stop it,” said Dean. The former Democratic presidential candidate also said that there were “no serious questions being asked about Benghazi” and brushed it off as an effort by Republicans to score political points.
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All of Obama´s Scandals Are Ultimately About Information Control
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National Review Online, by Jim Geraghty
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/21/2013 9:26:54 PM
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There’s really no reason for the press to suggest that the recent slew of scandals involving the Obama administration — Benghazi, the AP phone-record seizure, the snooping in James Rosen’s e-mail, the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, and so on — are a confusing jumble. There is a very clear thread running through all of the administration’s actions: The U.S. deputy chief of mission in Libya, Gregory Hicks, says that he was told not to speak to a member of Congress about Benghazi without a State Department lawyer present, that he received a phone call from Hillary Clinton’s
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