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Title: Conservatives/Tea Party to challenge many GOP candidates in 2010 Post by: MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! on November 03, 2009, 07:59:19 AM http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091103/pl_politico/29057
Interesting Title: Re: Conservatives/Tea Party to challenge many GOP candidates in 2010 Post by: Хahar 🤔 on November 03, 2009, 09:24:51 PM Excellent.
Title: Re: Conservatives/Tea Party to challenge many GOP candidates in 2010 Post by: Deldem on November 03, 2009, 10:56:59 PM Can anyone say "vote splitting"?
Title: Re: Conservatives/Tea Party to challenge many GOP candidates in 2010 Post by: Frodo on November 03, 2009, 11:16:04 PM If the GOP only makes marginal gains next year, Democrats should send thank-you cards to Tea-Baggers throughout the nation.
Title: Re: Conservatives/Tea Party to challenge many GOP candidates in 2010 Post by: Scam of God on November 03, 2009, 11:18:46 PM If the GOP only makes marginal gains next year, Democrats should send thank-you cards to Tea-Baggers throughout the nation. What's more: we ought to look to absorb some of them. That's exactly how Nixon built his Emerging Republican Majority - splitting the Democrats at the cleavage. If we can attract some of the social liberals, and then moderate on economics (the way President Clinton surely had in mind), we might then get somewhere. Title: Re: Conservatives/Tea Party to challenge many GOP candidates in 2010 Post by: Psychic Octopus on November 03, 2009, 11:23:20 PM If the GOP only makes marginal gains next year, Democrats should send thank-you cards to Tea-Baggers throughout the nation. What's more: we ought to look to absorb some of them. That's exactly how Nixon built his Emerging Republican Majority - splitting the Democrats at the cleavage. If we can attract some of the social liberals, and then moderate on economics (the way President Clinton surely had in mind), we might then get somewhere. You may even get me. Title: Re: Conservatives/Tea Party to challenge many GOP candidates in 2010 Post by: Scam of God on November 03, 2009, 11:25:53 PM If the GOP only makes marginal gains next year, Democrats should send thank-you cards to Tea-Baggers throughout the nation. What's more: we ought to look to absorb some of them. That's exactly how Nixon built his Emerging Republican Majority - splitting the Democrats at the cleavage. If we can attract some of the social liberals, and then moderate on economics (the way President Clinton surely had in mind), we might then get somewhere. You may even get me. But you have to work for it, too. Notice that when Nixon began his Southern Strategy in earnest after Wallace was shot and out of the picture, he intentionally shunned the most hardcore segregationists, asking them to tone down (but never totally drop) their segregation and moderate their rhetoric. At the same time, any Republican entryism into the Democratic ranks would have to do the same in reverse: become more outspoken on social liberal issues. Title: Re: Conservatives/Tea Party to challenge many GOP candidates in 2010 Post by: paul718 on November 04, 2009, 01:03:35 AM NY-23 is a perfect example of why this nonsense should stop.
Title: Re: Conservatives/Tea Party to challenge many GOP candidates in 2010 Post by: Padfoot on November 04, 2009, 01:37:43 AM NY-23 is a perfect example of why this nonsense should stop. But will it? Will Hoffman's defeat be enough to stamp out enough of the enthusiasm and funding for grassroots conservatives and the Club for Growth? I'm betting that it won't. The closeness of this race is only - to steal a commonly abused GOP catchphrase - going to embolden the "terrorists." They may be able to take down a few more conservative Democrats with these candidates but they certainly won't be winning back many of the seats where Democrats have encroached on former moderate Republican territory. If the conservative wing of the party brands candidates like Rob Simmons in CT or Kelly Ayotte in NH as the next Dede Scozzafava, the GOP is going to be licking its wounds again a year from now. Title: Re: Conservatives/Tea Party to challenge many GOP candidates in 2010 Post by: bullmoose88 on November 04, 2009, 03:16:05 AM If the GOP only makes marginal gains next year, Democrats should send thank-you cards to Tea-Baggers throughout the nation. What's more: we ought to look to absorb some of them. That's exactly how Nixon built his Emerging Republican Majority - splitting the Democrats at the cleavage. If we can attract some of the social liberals, and then moderate on economics (the way President Clinton surely had in mind), we might then get somewhere. You may even get me. NiK wouldn't be the only one you'd get. Title: Re: Conservatives/Tea Party to challenge many GOP candidates in 2010 Post by: MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! on November 04, 2009, 06:37:56 AM NY-23 is a perfect example of why this nonsense should stop. Hell no. Tea-baggers, don't stop! Title: Re: Conservatives/Tea Party to challenge many GOP candidates in 2010 Post by: Stranger in a strange land on November 07, 2009, 01:22:37 PM NY-23 is a perfect example of why this nonsense should stop. Hell no. Tea-baggers, don't stop! Title: Re: Conservatives/Tea Party to challenge many GOP candidates in 2010 Post by: xavier110 on November 07, 2009, 02:18:09 PM I love tea-bagging!
Title: Re: Conservatives/Tea Party to challenge many GOP candidates in 2010 Post by: Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee on November 07, 2009, 02:50:36 PM My hope was they would focus there attention on PA and maybe FL and leave the deep Blue states like ILL, CT, ME, NH, and NY alone.
Title: Re: Conservatives/Tea Party to challenge many GOP candidates in 2010 Post by: Swing Voter on November 08, 2009, 04:41:58 AM If the GOP only makes marginal gains next year, Democrats should send thank-you cards to Tea-Baggers throughout the nation. What's more: we ought to look to absorb some of them. That's exactly how Nixon built his Emerging Republican Majority - splitting the Democrats at the cleavage. If we can attract some of the social liberals, and then moderate on economics (the way President Clinton surely had in mind), we might then get somewhere. You may even get me. NiK wouldn't be the only one you'd get. bullmoose and Nik aren't the only ones you would get. But we have already spoke on this, haven't we? ;) Title: Re: Conservatives/Tea Party to challenge many GOP candidates in 2010 Post by: TeePee4Prez on November 13, 2009, 02:58:31 AM My hope was they would focus there attention on PA and maybe FL and leave the deep Blue states like ILL, CT, ME, NH, and NY alone. I hope they focus and waste their monies in PA and FL. Title: Re: Conservatives/Tea Party to challenge many GOP candidates in 2010 Post by: Lief 🗽 on November 13, 2009, 10:32:45 AM If the GOP only makes marginal gains next year, Democrats should send thank-you cards to Tea-Baggers throughout the nation. What's more: we ought to look to absorb some of them. That's exactly how Nixon built his Emerging Republican Majority - splitting the Democrats at the cleavage. If we can attract some of the social liberals, and then moderate on economics (the way President Clinton surely had in mind), we might then get somewhere. You may even get me. And lose me. ::) |