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2016 Postmortem

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts) Mon Nov 12, 2012, 11:20 AM Nov 2012

Beltway villager Halperin rubs salt in GOP wounds, shows how they are screwed

http://thepage.time.com/2012/11/11/gop-sunday-reflections/

1 way to measure weak position of GOP now is to compare to '89 Dems. Look @ all GOP lacks: for starters, B Clinton, Al From, Ron Brown etc

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Mark Halperin (@MarkHalperin) November 11, 2012
By '92, Ds were willing to nominate pro-death penalty, pro-trade, pro-welfare reform candidate. What are plausible comparable GOP shifts?

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Mark Halperin (@MarkHalperin) November 11, 2012
R leaders must strike a deal on fiscal cliff &/but @which point, D slogan will be, "GM is alive, OBL is dead, Ds cut debt in balanced way"

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Mark Halperin (@MarkHalperin) November 11, 2012
Know what makes Ds confident Rs aren't gonna fix anytime soon? Mitch Daniels "truce" reax, power of FNC, reliance on leaders not up to task

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