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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-03-09 01:17 PM
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Christian Science Monitor: Republicans try to take back party from lunatics
“I am not a member of any organized party,” Will Rogers famously quipped. “I am a Democrat.” Then there were those old jokes about Democrats forming “circular firing squads.”

But these days, it seems like Republicans are the ones duking it out with each other … or at least examining where they are and where they should be headed after recent electoral drubbings.

Mainstream Republicans are looking at the loudest of the conservative voices — Sarah Palin and the most prominent of the talk-show types (Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, et al) — and concluding that the GOP needs to do something different if it’s to succeed.

http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/10/03/palin-limbaugh-beck-%E2%80%A6-now-it%E2%80%99s-republicans-seeing-the-downside/
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Juche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-03-09 01:22 PM
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1. Good luck
The lunatics make up 30-50% of the party. The rest are libertarians and people too lazy to realize what the GOP actually stands for.

Gooooood luck taking it back.
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Wizard777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-03-09 01:39 PM
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2. I think the GOP stands for Greedy Old Psychotics.
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rgbecker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-03-09 02:01 PM
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3. If this is up to McCain and Graham, I'm not worried. As for
David Brooks, He might be able to identify the wackos but he mimics them enough so I think he has lost his middle of the road readers.
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