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What Went Wrong Last Tuesday

Chris736 Wrote: Nov 12, 2012 4:44 PM

We have already forgotten the lessons of 2012 when Republicans took back the House and almost took the Senate. It was a sweeping rebuttal of President Obama's first 2 years. The fire for that victory came from the Tea Party. That kind of passion is contagious. Several candidates won on Tea Party platforms as they embraced what the Republican party should be about. But the Republican leadership was not impressed. They successfully pushed the Tea Party movement aside. Compare that to the Occupy movement. While the left didn't always embrace the methods, they openly embraced the movement and the messengers. It rings hollow when the Republican leadership pushes for limited government when they shot the very messengers who issued the call.

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Jim69 Wrote: Nov 12, 2012 6:12 PM

This happened in 2012? Time warp? How is Congressman West doing?

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What Went Wrong Last Tuesday

Disbelief is the word that defines the Republican state of mind in the wake of the 2012 re-election of President Barack Obama.

The obvious questions are: “How can Americans have re-elected a president who has presided over an economy where unemployment still hovers at 8 percent ?”

And, “How can Americans have re-elected a president who still doesn’t grasp that his big government policies are what have blocked our economic recovery?”

The Republican Party needs to take responsibility for this disaster.

Nothing in the outcome of this election is a surprise. The realities which produced these election results have...

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