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Meghan McCain Rips
Palin's 'Retarded'
Double Standard

'Exactly what's wrong with politics today'

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Mystery Bush
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Palin Blasts Global Warming Studies as 'Snake Oil'

... in speech to Calif. logging conference

Feb 8, 10 10:04 PM CST
Tea Partiers Attack... Ron Paul?

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OPINION

Good Riddance to Rep. Murtha

Late Democrat slammed for corruption, stance on Iraq

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WILLIAM MCGURN

Look Who Says Bush
Was Right on Terror

Obama invokes Bush policies as defense in Couric interview

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analysis

Meg Whitman
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She's known for her business smarts, not her personality

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OPINION

Sarah Palin
Must Heed
Yogi Berra

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Democrats Fault
Rahm Emanuel
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Analysis

Obama Calls
GOP's Bluff
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Shelby Drops
Holds on Obama
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ANALYSIS

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'Tea Party' to Fight Dozen GOP Candidates in 2010

Conservatives taking aim at moderates

By Kevin Spak| Posted Nov 3, 09 12:00 PM CST|

(Newser) – This election cycle could herald all-out war between far-right conservatives and the Republican establishment. Empowered by their success in pushing the GOP candidate out of the race in New York’s 23rd District, tea party activists and their allies plan to launch primary challenges against more than a dozen GOP candidates, Politico reports. Top Senate contenders like Charlie Crist, Rob Simmons, and Mark Kirk, and even some incumbents, like Utah’s Bob Bennett, are in their sights.

“I would say it’s the tip of the spear,” says Dick Armey, now head of a group that works with tea party organizers. “What you’re going to see is moderates and conservatives across the country in primaries.” The challengers promise to be well-funded, and the party fears they’ll push the party too far right to win. “It can get very, very ugly,” says a former NRCC chair.

Gov. Charlie Crist speaks during a news conference Friday afternoon Aug. 7, 2009 in Tampa, Fla. following the resignation of U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

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Wonka
Nov 3, 09 12:03 PM CST

Teabaggers are destroying the GOP!!!! Just sit back and watch them tear each other apart!!!! Reply

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Wonka
Nov 3, 09 12:23 PM CST

@jamerican - yeah, I saw how many "conservatives" there are in this country in the 2006 and 2008 elections. Face reality, conservatives are a fringe group. The last 8 years are proof that conservatism is a failure. You're tea parties are a joke and are thinly veiled excuse for closet racists to unite. The majority of Americans reject conservatism. The idea that you think you all will "take back out (sic) country" seems a fitting statement for a group of Americans that has completely lost touch with reality.

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foodchain11
Nov 3, 09 1:10 PM CST

Good Old Past!! Yep. no taxes, no government, no clue about today's world. We aren't and cannot return to nationalism; we are part of the world, not an island and not the king.

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DontLikeYou
Nov 3, 09 1:19 PM CST

The Freedom movement among conservatives is SAVING the GOP. That is why liberals are pissed off. You know it. The American people are forcing the GOP to move to the right and that is making you libs seeth with rage. LOL. Too bad, so sad libs. Here's a tissue. We'll miss ya. Hardly knew ya. Tell Barack we said bye, bye.

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USAHomeofthebrave
Nov 3, 09 2:18 PM CST

Hurricane katrina vandel huevel said the tea -bag protest was organized by the RNC. Once again, she was wrong. Whenever hurricane katrina VH opens her mouth, she is either lying or wrong or both!

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Galileo
Nov 3, 09 3:41 PM CST

Yeah once you guys get an ultra-conservative or two into the government, the president will be powerless. Haha.

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Shannonals
Nov 3, 09 8:10 PM CST

Must you continually make racist comments jamerican? What in the heck happened to you to make you so hateful? For the record, your not a conservative, definitely not with that attitude.

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davjc09
Nov 3, 09 12:05 PM CST

Both are so out of touch with their constituents anyway it won't matter. Reply

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DontLikeYou
Nov 3, 09 1:22 PM CST

REcent poll. Do you consider yourself Conservative, Liberal or Independent? ---------- 40%= Conservative ---- 30% Independent ------ 20% Liberal

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logothete
Nov 3, 09 2:53 PM CST

Source that, hatetheworld, or STFU.

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Doctor_Supercilious
Nov 3, 09 2:57 PM CST

He can't do either. I like how his made up poll all ended in round numbers.

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Doctor_Supercilious
Nov 3, 09 2:57 PM CST

And he still couldn't have it add up to 100%

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DarkFrancis
Nov 3, 09 4:30 PM CST

Hi DLY, welcome to Understanding Politics - Junior Module. When two parties (let's call them Parties X & Y) compete against each other for power, the vote is usually split pretty much down the middle. Let's say there's a split in Party X due to ideological differences and there are now three parties, X1, X2 and Y. You now what is known as a 'three-cornered contest'. Can you say 'three-cornered contest'? Very good. In a three cornered contest, the two separate factions from the same political base traditionally lose votes. Why? Well, there are only so many voters, and the people who usually vote for their general brand of politics will make their choice more specific. This means fewer votes for both parties involved in the schism. So if Party X WAS receiving 50% of the vote before, but now they've broken into X1 and X2, they will still garner no more than about 50% of the votes between them at best, while united party Y still has about 50% of the vote all to themselves. Y won't need NEED 50% of it anymore (unless Condorcet etc are applied), and all they have to do is sit back and watch these competing factions tear strips off each out of political stupidity. In short, three cornered contests are not very productive for the parties who split. In fact, they are often disastrous.

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Mia
Nov 3, 09 12:08 PM CST

Stop taxing income and tax what we buy. That way drug dealers, hoes, and pimp will pay too. Reply

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DontLikeYou
Nov 3, 09 11:56 PM CST

That makes too much sense for politicians. It also removes a great deal of power the government holds over its subjects. That's why democrats will never go for that idea..... ever.

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Mia
Nov 4, 09 12:17 PM CST

I am a democrat and i go for it.

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dns2
Nov 3, 09 1:04 PM CST

The tea bag folks are not true conservatives. They believe in big government just like liberals do. The only difference is the tea baggers want their religous/moral views codified in law. A "true conservative would support equal rights for all to including gays. A "true conservative" would not want government to tell a woman what she can do with her own body Reply

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DontLikeYou
Nov 3, 09 1:23 PM CST

@dns2, what you think you know and what you actually know seem worlds apart. Of course, to some, truth is not important... it is relative.

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riffran
Nov 3, 09 1:53 PM CST

The more the left and the Mainstream drive by media attempt to discredit and or marginalize the impetus behind the "tea party" phenom...the more I am sure they are afraid of it Reply

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DontLikeYou
Nov 3, 09 11:57 PM CST

100% correct. Liberals fear and therefore lash out in anger at things they cannot understand nor control. It's pathetic, when you thing about it.

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Face-Of-RNC
Nov 30, 09 12:18 PM CST

Fear the throes of self-destruction for the conservatives? I don't think so.

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freethemall
Nov 3, 09 2:22 PM CST

I have a question for jamerican, or for any like thinking person: You call for less government, less taxation, and no socialism. To what extent do you propose to cut government? Do you advocate doing away with all government programs instituted by LBJ's Great Society, and all of those instituted by FDR's New Deal? Just wondering. Reply

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Caps
Nov 3, 09 4:28 PM CST

freethemall, jamerican doesn't know what in hell she/he are talking about. Just blabbering off like DLY.

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DontLikeYou
Nov 3, 09 11:58 PM CST

@freethemall.... of course. The socialist "great society" should die a slow and painful death. It is anti freedom and is not what America is founded upon.

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freethemall
Nov 4, 09 1:26 PM CST

How about the The New Deal --- FDIC, SEC, social security, etc.?

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d3wd
Nov 3, 09 2:28 PM CST

The liberty movement isn't about political parties. It's not about left vs. right. Some people are too dimwitted to think outside the left-right paradigm. Reply

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DontLikeYou
Nov 4, 09 12:01 AM CST

Some people see part of that paradigm as inherently more evil than the other side. What should they do, sit around and not vote because the game is fixed? Silly. Instead, you prevent as much damage as possible in hope that the American people will one day wake out of their slumber and choose to throw off their chains. Then again, some are awake... it's just that they enjoy their chains.

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logothete
Nov 3, 09 2:57 PM CST

Ve must be ideologically pure!! And zen ve shall take Iowa, and zen Vashington, and zen all de pointy-heads vill be put in camps and be re-educated by Gauleiter Beck! Wheeee! Reply

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Netstorm2k10
Nov 3, 09 3:43 PM CST

Bashes head into wall until face deforms. Reply

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Netstorm2k10
Nov 3, 09 3:46 PM CST

Your polarization is what is wrong with this country. I'm talking to all of you. You're blindly assuming that your division is effective, when all it does is blind you to the real enemy.

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cornelison
Nov 3, 09 8:29 PM CST

Charlie Crist is gay. The extreme right will never support him. "Log Cabin" Republicans are welcome to vote as independents or Democrats. Reply

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DontLikeYou
Nov 4, 09 12:02 AM CST

"Log cabin". That has always seemed an odd name for gay people.

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cornelison
Nov 3, 09 8:56 PM CST

1/3 of The Senate is elected every two years. In 2010 the Democrats have a chance to win more seats in The Senate. That's where health care reform has turned into a farce. You can change who you send to Washington in those Senate races. Reply

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