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Tx4obama

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1. I think the GOP screwed up when they let the TeaParty get out of hand and didn't stomp them out

Reply to RBInMaine (Original post)

Sun Jan 22, 2012, 07:39 AM

Jan 2012

It pretty much started with Sarah Palin and her hate speech at the 2008 GOP convention.
The GOP embraced the extremists and thought it was wonderful in 2010 when they won a bunch of House seats.
Boehner can't control the radicals that won those seats - tough shit - that's his problem now
So, they will just have to live with it.
They made their bed now they will have to lie in it

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Now it is the GOP grassroots base vs. the GOP establishment. OH HOW SWEET IT IS! [View all] RBInMaine Jan 2012 OP

I think the GOP screwed up when they let the TeaParty get out of hand and didn't stomp them out Tx4obama Jan 2012 #1

Newt Gingrich continues with "populist vs. establishment"; offer to Palin pampango Jan 2012 #2

never underestimate the newt.... madrchsod Jan 2012 #3