New England Republicans are getting scarcer than hens teeth ain't they?

NNN0LHI

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Wed Feb-11-09 02:55 PM
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New England Republicans are getting scarcer than hens teeth ain't they?

Must be a dying breed?

Don

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ThomWV

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Wed Feb-11-09 02:59 PM
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1. Looks to me like all you have to do is go over to the Commerce Department to find one.

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SteppingRazor

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Wed Feb-11-09 02:59 PM
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2. What New England Republicans?

With the exception of Maine's two senators and the newly minted (and electorally doomed) senator from New Hampshire, Bonnie Newman, there is not a single New England Republican in Congress.

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Ikonoklast

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Wed Feb-11-09 03:13 PM
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3. There is a vanishingly small fiscal-conservative, socially liberal branch

Edited on Wed Feb-11-09 03:13 PM by Ikonoklast

of the Republic party left, and I think most of them are actually Blue-Dog Democrats.

The Republic party is becoming increasingly regional, southern, rural, and irrelevant.

I hope they radically shift even further to the right as they pander to an increasingly smaller and loonier base.

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Blue_Tires

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Wed Feb-11-09 03:19 PM
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4. they got forced out by their own party

traditionally in past years, a lot of NE repubs were more liberal than southern dems (especially on social/environmental issues)...

they were also a lot less fundie...so you can see once the christian coalition rose to power in the early 90s, they were going to get more of 'their people' in those offices

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Ishoutandscream2

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Wed Feb-11-09 03:20 PM
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5. It's gotta be really good up there

Keep supporting the progressives we have fighting the good fight here in the south. We need all the support we can get!

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