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JaneyVee

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1. This war WILL get uglier. When their conservative base calls Boehner & co.

Reply to cali (Original post)

Sun Oct 20, 2013, 07:20 PM

Oct 2013

"Liberals" you know the splintering will turn into a huge crack. And it will cause them to lose many elections. The GOP must claim the middle or die, but their base will only nominate the crazy during primaries.

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I don't see how the repubs solve their internecine battle for control [View all] cali Oct 2013 OP

This war WILL get uglier. When their conservative base calls Boehner & co. JaneyVee Oct 2013 #1

it will be interesting to see if that holds up cali Oct 2013 #3

It just gets uglier. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing. Jackpine Radical Oct 2013 #2

Here's how it ends: the party moves even further geek tragedy Oct 2013 #4

I disagree tht the party establisment will go further in co-opting cali Oct 2013 #5

That's what I thought...same with the Kochs and Wall Street funders...surprised me they came out libdem4life Oct 2013 #6

The nutjobs are the party at the precinct level. geek tragedy Oct 2013 #7