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In the discussion thread: What the GOP is **really** afraid of... [View all]

Sat Nov 17, 2012, 01:01 PM

dtom67 (420 posts)

22. Not at all....

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All GOP economic policies have been shown to be false in the past, that has never stopped them before.
I don't understand all this euphoria over winning the election. We won bigger than this in 2008; look what happened just 2 years later. In 2012, we won to maintain the status quo , that's all.
" But, we beat Mittens and his billion dollar campaign ! "
Yeah. Wow.
We now have proof that it takes more than a billion dollars to get the most un-electable man on the planet into the presidency. Just by looking at Mitt Romney, 99% of the population knew that he was not on their side. Just by looking at Mitt, your standard of living went down. We really didn't need the 47% video to know that Mitt was the candidate of, by and for the wealthy. He didn't care about anyone else.
So what?
What if they run someone who is more charismatic? Same old policies, yet is more visually palatable to voters?
don't count these villains out yet...

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79 replies	Author	Time	Post
What the GOP is really afraid of... [View all]	WilliamPitt	Nov 2012	OP
QFT.....	Wounded Bear	Nov 2012	#1
+1,000	freshwest	Nov 2012	#21
Yep, Wounded Bear, the republicans have been trying to overturn all "social safety net"	iemitsu	Nov 2012	#54
+1 and then some! n/t	MANative	Nov 2012	#2
Afraid that trickle down economics	Blue4Texas	Nov 2012	#3
True but...they are afraid of their own shadow.	Auntie Bush	Nov 2012	#4
It goes back to ideology	adieu	Nov 2012	#12
Yes...	PLW1017	Nov 2012	#14
+(n)	WheelWalker	Nov 2012	#30
a god that had a bit more logical underpinnings	AlbertCat	Nov 2012	#16
The economy, historically, does better when Democrats are in power.	xtraxritical	Nov 2012	#41
Point of order:	markbark	Nov 2012	#42
Oh please....	whathehell	Nov 2012	#48
"Extreme evangelical Christian" is not necessarily Christian.	JDPriestly	Nov 2012	#52
Adieu didn't use that term	whathehell	Nov 2012	#57
spot. on.	ldf	Nov 2012	#72
republickconism's myths are being exposed for the cynical prevarications they are.	SubgeniusHasSlack	Nov 2012	#5
Irrelevant?	AnotherMcIntosh	Nov 2012	#31
3rd way'ers ARE republickcons	SubgeniusHasSlack	Nov 2012	#44
I agree that "3rd way'ers ARE republickcons" or can be called that,	AnotherMcIntosh	Nov 2012	#50
Bingo. Hence their viciousness	Populist_Prole	Nov 2012	#6
Spam deleted by gkhouston (MIR Team)	Dubster	Nov 2012	#7
Exactly.10 years of tax cuts & jobs hemorraged.Return to Clinton era tax rates let the healing begin	judesedit	Nov 2012	#8
Return to Clinton era tax rates let the healing begin	AlbertCat	Nov 2012	#17
Exactly	Aerows	Nov 2012	#9
When I heard him make this statement I thought he had tremendous insight.	glinda	Nov 2012	#10
Exactly - they know that IF things do get turned around they are toast	underpants	Nov 2012	#11
K & R	Change has come	Nov 2012	#13
It's all about the haves and haves not.	Wellstone ruled	Nov 2012	#15
"Raygun ... was a very spiteful person." No. The problem was that he was an amiable idiot who never	AnotherMcIntosh	Nov 2012	#35
K&R nt	ProudProgressiveNow	Nov 2012	#18
Actually, they were proven wrong	Jack Sprat	Nov 2012	#19
Yep. Down the drain of Grover's bathtub.	amywalk	Nov 2012	#20
Not at all....	dtom67	Nov 2012	#22
THIS!	Cosmocat	Nov 2012	#32
Hanauer shares a nugget of stellar truth!! Thanks!!	hue	Nov 2012	#23
I am more than ready	musette_sf	Nov 2012	#24
it was ALREADY DISPROVED by the clinton tax hike. HELLO.	pansypoo53219	Nov 2012	#25
Had not considered that. Spot on me thinks. Good call. n/t	Smickey	Nov 2012	#26
The 1% are stupid enough to kill the golden goose (US economy). nm	rhett o rick	Nov 2012	#27
+1!!!!	hrmjustin	Nov 2012	#28
A much watch Nick Hanauer TED talk:	progressoid	Nov 2012	#29
That should have its own thread.	mzmolly	Nov 2012	#34
Yes...	progressoid	Nov 2012	#56
Amazing!	a2liberal	Nov 2012	#61
Thank you for reposting. I hadn't seen it before today. Excellent. ...nt	TeeYiYi	Nov 2012	#63
Plus one..	butterfly77	Nov 2012	#78
Hanauer was brilliant on Ed's show last night.	mzmolly	Nov 2012	#33
I was going to post a picture of what the Repugs are really afraid of ...	zbdent	Nov 2012	#36
I highly recommend his and Eric Liu's book...The Gardens of Democracy	gulliver	Nov 2012	#37
I thought that they were afraid of brown people,	murielm99	Nov 2012	#38
What the GOP should really be afraid of is that we will replace even more Blue-Dogs and 3rd-wayers.	AnotherMcIntosh	Nov 2012	#39
The GREATEST Period Of Prosperity...	bvar22	Nov 2012	#40
Never thought of that, but it makes sense	Up2Late	Nov 2012	#43
K&R	ReRe	Nov 2012	#45
I would agree and can't wait for it!	arthritisR_US	Nov 2012	#46
The Republicans are afraid of their donors	Rosa Luxemburg	Nov 2012	#47
The real fear	blackdiamond62	Nov 2012	#49
And, there it is.	Cha	Nov 2012	#51
#217 K&R.	David Zephyr	Nov 2012	#53
Nick Hanauer is my hero.	Promethean	Nov 2012	#55
Absolutely true. I have made it a rule of thumb to beware of Republican pseudo-practicality.	Raksha	Nov 2012	#58
nothing new there	stupidicus	Nov 2012	#59
Everything was fine under the Clinton tax rates!	dem4ward	Nov 2012	#60
And they are going to like having health care too.	TBF	Nov 2012	#62
Actually it's the opposite and we will get to see it	nolabels	Nov 2012	#64
Well duh! Republicans have always been afraid that the plans and policies of the democratic party	merh	Nov 2012	#65
Not that it needs it now, but a big K&R. Love the EGOPSs.	Dark n Stormy Knight	Nov 2012	#66
I think Hanauer has a little too much faith in human reason	nxylas	Nov 2012	#67
"Trickle Down"	KansDem	Nov 2012	#68
Already proven under Clinton who raised taxes on the rich and created 23 million jobs.	RBInMaine	Nov 2012	#69
yep-- and you have to wonder if their constant hounding of him on BS charges	NoMoreWarNow	Nov 2012	#71
This one's been making the rounds on Facebook	WhoIsNumberNone	Nov 2012	#70
Rewriting the "Book" on Ronnie Raygun	wolfie001	Nov 2012	#73
Now that's a venture capitalist I can respect. n/t	AverageJoe90	Nov 2012	#74
K&R...	butterfly77	Nov 2012	#75
Trickle down is dead.	sarcasmo	Nov 2012	#76
That's my neighbor! (In a broad sense -- not in the same neighborhood. :-)	gateley	Nov 2012	#77
This has to be the most recs I've ever seen in a post.	liberalmuse	Nov 2012	#79

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