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Originally Posted by kane
The liberals are not the only people afraid of the Tea Party or Sarah Palin. The Republicans are worried that the tea party will win enough seats to make their lives hell. If these Tea Party people stick to their word they won't vote for anything that will raise he deficit which will be pretty much anything that is put on the floor. Without their support the Republicans will get nothing passed, never mind having to fight the Democrats.
As for Sarah Palin, you can tell the Republicans fear her because they are changing the delegate rules for the primaries. The Republican primaries have always been winner take all. You win the state, you get all the delegates. They are changing that for at least the first handful of states so now you get a number of delegates in proportion to the number of votes you get. This is how the Democrats do it.
They are doing this because they are afraid that Palin will run and since a large number of the early primaries are in bible belt states she could win some states early on. These victories could force out more moderate candidates that might be able to win the more moderate states and win the general election. Think of Huckabee in the last election. He stuck around early and traded wins with McCain. Eventually they left the bible belt and McCain pulled away in the more progressive states. What they don't want is Palin to come out of the gate fast, win a bunch of states and kill off Romney or some other more moderate candidate then have her get thrashed in the general election. Right now she polls well, but right now she isn't running for office so she can say what she wants when she wants and control her image. If she gets back on the campaign trail it will remind much of the country how batshit crazy she really is.
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I agree, the Tea Party is changing the way things are done, things need change, can't say which is the better way to change, but things as usual doesn't work anymore. I was pretty happy during the Clinton years after 94 when the GOP took the house and senate, we had it pretty good in this country. Then we got away from fiscal conservative values and everything went to shit, the Tea Party is backing people that are fiscally conservative. That pisses off the GOP, and I love that, they fucked things up to begin with, then the voters voted in the democrats and they fucked it up even worse.
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Originally Posted by Bryan G
Since when does making money define ones intelligence?
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So because her views are different from yours, that makes her stupid?
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Originally Posted by Jason Voorhees
Take everything you say and replace the idiots you support with the idiots you rant on about, like Obama and the dems, gee, sound familiar?
You and politics shouldn't even be near each other, you're bat shit fucking insane.
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Where did I say it didn't happen on both sides? You calling me bat shit insane is funny, didn't you just say replace the idiots with the idiots? I think you're being the idiot here if thats what you believe.
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Originally Posted by tony286
Lololololo thank you I needed a chuckle
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All in a days work.
It's pretty simple, the democrats have had the control of the house and the senate for 4 years and 15 months after they took over, things went to shit, and it's not getting better, so we need the change they promised in the first place. This election is not about social issues, it's about fiscal issues, and the democrats will have a hard time proving they're fiscal with the track record of the last 4 years.
You guys want to call me a republican, go for it, but I would rather see a balance of right and left power, something more towards the middle, when you go to far in one direction , it's historically wrong for the country