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The Republicans' Primary Problem

tcomments Wrote: Feb 07, 2013 12:30 PM
Republicans need to STAND Together. Republicans need to Back Republicans up fro Election or re-election.
Pookiedr Wrote: Feb 07, 2013 12:38 PM
Conservitives need to stand together.
Republicans need to back conservatives in primaries, not RINO's.
agitator Wrote: Feb 08, 2013 9:38 AM
What do you mean by RINO's?
beowulfe Wrote: Feb 07, 2013 12:36 PM
For good or ill, unlike Democrats, Republicans won't support "one of their own" when they betray their principles.
Peter841 Wrote: Feb 07, 2013 12:59 PM
beowulfe Wrote: Feb 07, 2013 1:01 PM
If the only thing that matters is winning, then so what? Either you get an Obama with a "D" after his name or an Obama with an "R" after his name. What's the difference?

Having just lost an election, many Republicans are anxious to remake our party in the image of Democrats. The theory seems to be that whatever we're doing isn't working, so we better change everything.

But in fact, whatever Republicans did in 2012 -- other than an overly long primary fight -- worked amazingly well, given the circumstances.

In a detailed analysis of the 2012 election, William A. Galston, a fellow with the liberal Brookings Institution, makes a number of fascinating observations that Republicans would do well to consider before embracing amnesty, abortion, gay marriage and Beyonce.

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