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This is a political forum and the so called Tea Party or Republican base is close to 40% or more of Republican voters. I am just asking why the Republican base has gone silent. A year ago the base was yelling "shut it down" calling for a government shut down. We had 53 votes to repeal Obamacare but now you dont hear much from a lot of the Republicans. Now we have four Republicans who have come out and say they support birth control. Whats that all about? Trey Gowdy has his first day of hearings on Benghazi without doing much. I guess that will drag on to 2016. Death Panels have come back and there is almost total silence on it. Republicans and Democrats so far have been fairly quiet on Mediscare tactics. So after the elections the real Republicans return and will start restricting abortion, restricting voting rights, getting rid of Obamacare and cancelling 15 million peoples insurance and throwing another 6 million or so off Medicaid? We still have Ted Cruz...he isnt changing...Tea Partier till the end.
the so called Tea Party or Republican base is close to 40% or more of Republican voters.
We still have Ted Cruz..
Just throw it out there and see if it sticks! LOL
Let me throw this out there for you.
40% of all voters identify as Republican.
20% of all voters identify as Democrat.
That leaves 40% of all voters, to go one way or the other. With both parties being 2 sides of the same coin. Many stay home.
If the Republican Party, keeps putting a Progressive up there(Bush, McCain, Romney) and placing the label Conservative on them, they will never get past that 40% base of all voters. The eyes are wide open.
McCain and Romney kept a bunch of voters home.
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Just throw it out there and see if it sticks! LOL
Let me throw this out there for you.
40% of all voters identify as Republican.
20% of all voters identify as Democrat.
That leaves 40% of all voters, to go one way or the other. With both parties being 2 sides of the same coin. Many stay home.
If the Republican Party, keeps putting a Progressive up there(Bush, McCain, Romney) and placing the label Conservative on them, they will never get past that 40% base of all voters. The eyes are wide open.
McCain and Romney kept a bunch of voters home.
I agree with a lot of what you've said in this post except this..I think Palin and Romney kept a lot of voters home..I'm a Blue Dog Dem and I intended on voting for McCain until they propped white trash Barbie up beside him.
I am hoping for a Ted Cruz-and any Tea Partier ticket in 2016.
Funny... Of all the people holding office on the Hill, Ted Cruz has the most knowledge of the Constitution and where it all went bad and how we the people lost all the power, to the federal government and became We the Subjects.
He wrote all the briefs for Heller v. D.C.
Solicitor General of Texas
Director of policy planning at the Federal Trade Commission
Deputy US Attorney General
Domestic Policy Advisor
Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas/Austin
law clerk 4th circuit and then Chief Justice
Cruz has authored 70 US Supreme Court briefs
Cruz authored 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court
Cruz's record of having argued before the Supreme Court nine times is more than any practicing lawyer in Texas or any current member of Congress.
Cruz has never lost an argument, or debate, during litigation.
He is your worst nightmare, kid. No wonder you are scared of him.
When compared to the old battle axe Hilary, and more so when compared to the presiding President of these here fundamentally changed, Socialist States of America.... Cruz shines with experience.
Four years ago it was non stop Tea Party. We had Palin and Death Panels. The Tea Party complained constantly how Obamacare stole $500 billion from their Medicare. I was getting a robo-call every day. Palin went on a rant about Death Panels and the Tea Party ate it up. Now with "Death Panels" coming back the Tea Party and Sarah Palin are silent. Did it dawn suddenly on the Tea Party that spending other peoples money -$200 billion to extend a few seniors life by a couple of months might be excessive. Maybe finally fiscal conservatism finally hit the Tea Party in the face? I doubt it though since most love military spending.
Now we have a Sarah Palin Clone in Iowa. Joni Ernst bragged about castrating hogs when she was growing up and looked like a Sarah Palin clone wanting to kick 15 million people off the ACA and Medicaid. But now she has grown strangely silent on castrating hogs and is baking cookies.
Now we have Trey Gowdy who was supposed to be the greatest thing since bottled beer for the Tea Party except he sounded bi-partisan during the first Benghazi hearing. Which leads me to the old Tea Party phrase "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me." As Tea Partier do you think the Republicans will be able to pull the wool over enough peoples eyes before the election.
I agree with a lot of what you've said in this post except this..I think Palin and Romney kept a lot of voters home..I'm a Blue Dog Dem and I intended on voting for McCain until they propped white trash Barbie up beside him.
You lie to your friends and I'll lie to mine, but let is not lie to each other....
I didn't even vote for McCain and I surely didn't vote for Obama.
Palin may have gotten my vote.
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You lie to your friends and I'll lie to mine, but let is not lie to each other....
I didn't even vote for McCain and I surely didn't vote for Obama.
I don't really get the gist of what you are saying..I'm not lying..I was really leaning toward McCain...didn't like his stand on illegal Aliens but could've gotten passed that at the start..he had a few more issues such as being a Bush suck up etc,but Palin was something I couldn't get passed ...I don't like the Blue Dog stance on labor issues myself
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