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It makes this point: “There is a growing sense among Republicans that, with Mitt Romney all but crowned as their presidential nominee, social issues generally are losers for the party at a time when the GOP is trying to appeal to swing voters.”
“Outcomes in the Indiana, Texas and Nebraska Republican primaries are raising the odds that South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint will move closer to remaking the ranks of U.S. Senate Republicans in the image of the anti-tax Tea Party-dominated House caucus,” Bloomberg reports.
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So essentially, they'll wait until after the election to let their true intentions be known. Just the lack of ethics I've come to associate with the republican party. That's why even if I see a republican in my home state that looks like they are a reasonable individual, I can't vote for them. I don't trust their party as a whole.
Charles W.
Look who is the GOP's (unoffical) choice for the presidential candidate: Mr. I-Was-For-It-Before-I-was-Against-It aka Mr. For-This-Group-Of-People-I-Will-Say-This-But-For-This-Group-I-Will-Say-Something-Else.
Romney does not know who Romney is, so how are we supposed to know.
I did have the "pleasure" of having Romney as my Governor, so maybe that is why I don't like the guy.
Yeah..it's time for GOP to finally deal head-on with the worst recession caused by Bush.
This has been the thrust of my messaging for some time. We have been shown time and again that Republican gubernatorial candidates will hide their agenda til after the election ala Scott Walker (also govs of MI. OH, FL). We are faced with a choice in WA along these lines: the middle-of-the-road Repub AG speaks so soothingly to the Dems and independents but has joined the suit against the Affordable Care Act. He at least has given us a foretaste of what his administration would be like. As usual, I fear many do not inform themselves and will rue the outcome.
Just yesterday Teapublicans tried to pass a ban on abortion based on gender. Though this never happens in the US, and seems benign on the surface, with a closer look one can see the true intent of this hideous bill. It was yet another attempt to criminalize the right to choose by forcing doctors to report "suspicion" within a year or face charges. This would allow investigation of every single abortion over subjective motive. Second, it would target Asian citizens, allowing "profiling" discrimination against a particular race in our country.
Fortunately the bill did not pass. They had the audacity to stand on the floor and LIE about this bill being against a War on Women not yet born -- WTF? Since when have Teapublicans "curbed" their use of social wedge issues, and focused on JOBS? Liars and jagoffs -- Throw them all out!
Best Quote for the month of May 2012
Harry Reid Offers Senate GOP A Deal On Student Loan Rates, Wonders If Grover Norquist Will Accept It
Harry Reid - Senate Majority Leader
This is just a pre-election time out. If voters give them a chance, they will launch a war against citizen rights and the common welfare of the poor and middle class, and claim a mandate to do it.