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"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic." - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton April 28th, 2003

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HOPE AND CHANGE

What makes you think it is unsubstantiated, other than your own ignorance?

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"It's a good feeling to shoot a bad guy. Something you democrats would never understand. Americans are homesteaders, we want a safe home, keep the money we make, and shoot bad guys!"

----Denny Crane

Its political opinion. The white house chose a lot of moderate republican districts to get certain nominees from. Supposedly in swing districts they could win. It was a story back before inauguration.

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"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, "to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."

-Thomas Jefferson

Here's an interesting little tidbit: it looks like 95% of the cash Hoffman has raised has come from non-constituents.

NY-23: 95 Percent of Hoffman Cash From Out of District The Washington Independent

Perhaps they did, maybe we'll find out in 30 years when the documents declassify.

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Democrats are sexy. Who ever heard of a nice piece of elephant?

Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

Were any of those people underqualified for the positions they were appointed to?

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Democrats are sexy. Who ever heard of a nice piece of elephant?

Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

Pretty much everyone Obama nominated for any position was imo, so yes.

Judd Gregg - commerce
McHugh - secretary of army
Jim Leach - NEA

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"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, "to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."

-Thomas Jefferson

IYO, who were some more qualified candidates who are Democrats that were passed over?

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Democrats are sexy. Who ever heard of a nice piece of elephant?

Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

Leach lost his seat before being appointed to anything. He was beaten by an unknown political neophyte.

Why does it have to be democrats? I would have hired people from the private sector who werent politicians.

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"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, "to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."

-Thomas Jefferson

True. There were some Repulicans who turned Obama down as well because they knew what was going on.

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"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, "to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."

-Thomas Jefferson

Is there a reason to believe the republican is unqualified?

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The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
Justice Louis D Brandeis

speaking of the rep's eating their own, an interesting article on rep's past idiocy......on the mark.


Not one more cent to the Republican Party

“No one’s life is a waste,” a colleague wrote me in reaction to Dede Scozzafava’s withdrawal from the NY-23 congressional election. “You can always serve as a bad example.”


While we can certainly agree with this statement, it is about time we ask, how many bad examples does the Republican establishment need before it learns its lesson?

In 2004, strong support from the Republican establishment allowed liberal senator Arlen Specter to survive a Republican primary challenge from conservative congressman Pat Toomey by a minuscule margin.

The GOP continued to support Specter until he decided that it would be more convenient for him to simply become a Democrat. With a multitude of Senate bills now hinging on a single vote, one can only wonder where we would be had the Republican establishment not gone all out to defeat Toomey, a man whose name would have now been going hand-in-hand with that of Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn.

In 2006, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) wholeheartedly catapulted itself into a Rhode Island Republican primary, where it spent $1.2 million on behalf of left-wing senator Lincoln Chafee and against his conservative opponent, Steve Laffey, while the Republican National Committee (RNC) deployed the 72-hour get-out-the-vote drive it usually saves for general elections against Democrats. At around the same time, conservative Virginia Senator George Allen lost reelection by a razor-thin margin, handing the Senate over to the Democrats. To say that all the resources wasted by the Republican establishment in Rhode Island would not have had a good chance of giving Allen an extra 0.2 percent of the vote in Virginia would be naïve, to say the least.

In incredible irony, conservatives who had contributed money both to Laffey and to the Republican Party (with the assumption that the money would be used to protect conservative policies against liberal ones) were now seeing their hard-earned cash fighting itself on the airwaves of Rhode Island. Chafee won the primary, lost the general election, and when he no longer needed the Republican establishment, he predictably left the Republican Party and endorsed Barack Obama for President.

It did not appear that the GOP leadership had learned its lesson by 2008, when the establishment backed incumbent congressman Wayne Gilchrest in a Maryland congressional race, although he had been ranked by the National Journal as the most liberal Republican that year. When he nonetheless lost to his conservative challenger, Andy Harris, Gilchrest proceeded to endorse the Democrat in the race, helping the latter beat Harris by less than 1 percent. Oh, and Gilchrest voted for Obama too. Boy, those party bosses sure know how to pick’em.

Jim Jeffords. Lincoln Chafee. Arlen Specter. Wayne Gilchrest. How many more bad examples do they need? How many RINOs does the Republican establishment need to support, over conservatives’ strenuous objections, before learning how untrustworthy and unreliable the fakers are, both legislatively and politically?




rest at-

Not one more cent to the Republican Party | The North Star National

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"The captain has turned off the `No Dubbing' sign. You are free to speak any language you choose."

Very satisfying to see the legions of teabaggers and 9/12 morons slapped down by the electorate. NY 23 voters broke with 100 years of tradition and chose a Democrat over the candidate endorsed by Glenn Beck.

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Youre a teagbagger.

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"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, "to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."

-Thomas Jefferson