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Dec. 13, 2012 4:34pm Mytheos Holt

Evidence of the Republican party’s branding problem continues to pile up in a new poll from NBC and the Wall Street Journal. And for those who want the GOP to dig in its heels and fight on the fiscal cliff, the news is even worse.

From NBC’s summary of the poll:

The survey – conducted a month after November’s election – also shows a positive uptick in opinion toward President Barack Obama, and more negative views about defeated GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and the Republican Party. The poll also finds that a majority of Americans now support gay marriage.[...]

But if Obama is getting a lift after the election, the Republican Party is seeing a further decline.

The GOP’s favorable/unfavorable rating in the poll now stands at 30 percent/45 percent (minus-15 points), which is down from 36 percent/43 percent (minus-7) right before the election.

That’s compared with the Democratic Party’s 44 percent/35 percent rating (plus-9 points).

What’s more, asked to give a word or short phrase to describe the Republican Party, 65 percent offered a negative comment, including more than half of Republicans.

Some of the responses: “Bad,” “weak,” “negative,” “uncompromising,” “need to work together,” “broken,” “disorganized” and “lost.”

The Washington Post is even more brutal in its summary of the findings of the poll:

The poll tested the positive and negative ratings for 11 politicians or political institutions. The lowest rated — in terms of the differential between positive and negative ratings — was the Republican Party, with a 30 percent positive score and a 45 percent negative score. Of the five worst positive-to-negative ratios, Republicans claimed four of them. (The lone exception: Susan Rice with a 20 positive/24 percent net-negative score.) [...]

What those numbers make clear is that the Republican brand is badly damaged. It is regarded by too many people as an uncompromising relic of the past — a party that lacks new ideas and is, therefore, forced to largely serve as a blockade to the other side. (That’s the biggest reason, by the way, why Republicans should be interested in compromising on the fiscal cliff. They gap between how Obama is regarded and how they are seen is enough to make going over the cliff a genuine political loser for them.)

Republicans have and will continue to insist that they have put out new ideas, but the reality is that the American public doesn’t perceive them that way.

There is a silver lining for Republicans, however, in that if the fiscal cliff were to be reached with no compromise, they and the President would get an equal amount of blame. However, given their inferior standing in the polls relative to the President, the same amount of blame would likely hurt them more. Moreover, the NBC/WSJ poll is an outlier compared to other polls, which show the GOP taking most of the blame if fiscal cliff negotiations fall through.

However, the long-term perception of the GOP as an outdated party may not persist. As the Washington Post notes:

The good news for Republicans is that some of the party’s brand issues may well take care of themselves. Mitt Romney is headed off the national stage at lightning speed and is being replaced by the likes of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who not only look different than the Republican stereotype (Rubio is Latino, Jindal is Indian-American) but are also of a different generation (both men are in the early 40s) than most of the current national leaders of the Republican Party.

Nevertheless, ideas matter, and if this perception is to be changed, the Republican party quite arguably needs to start right now.

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ProudCapitalist
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:10pm
It doesn’t matter what they think or how many polls they take. They voted in a majority GOP House and now they have to live with it for at least two years, time enough to fix the mess made in the past century of Progressive nonsense.

You should all join the Libertarian party and give up the social conservatism. Social Darwinism and fiscal conservatism is what’s needed to right this country.

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- cantstandlibs
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:14pm
  I am seriously and for the first time thinking about this. I’m glad there is somewhere to go.
  
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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:34pm
  (You should all join the Libertarian party ) Do I have to vote for a kook like Ron Paul? A guy that was in office for 30yrs & couldn’t win his home state is pretty laughable.
  
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- Bookster
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:49pm
  “You should all join the Libertarian party and give up the social conservatism. Social Darwinism and fiscal conservatism is what’s needed to right this country.”
  
  Yeah, that’s the way to do it. Give up on all of your personal beliefs just to gain political popularity. I am a social conservative as well as a fiscal conservative. I am unwilling to throw away my belief system (which is rooted in my Christian beliefs) just so we might be able to win over the masses. If they don’t like me for my social conservationism, that’s their problem not mine.
  
  BTW, Darwin at the end of his life didn’t even believe in evolution. It is a fairy tale buy hey, if you want to believe that you came from monkeys, be my guest.
  
  Liberalism is a mental disorder.
  Progressives are a virus.
  Democrats are Godless.
  MSNBC=Hell’s webcam.
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:06pm
  Millions more hate Democrats. Democrats have done more to kill minorieties throughout American history than any other party. They fought for slavery, fought to keep blacks poor, supported oppressive dictatorships and even edge Hitler on to kill Jews. Hate, the Democrats invented hate and but for the Democrat Communist News Media everyone would still know it.
  
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- Todd P
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:19pm
  I would quit voting altogether before I give up social conservatism.
  
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- Norm D. Plume
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:21pm
  @Bookster:
  
  Welcome to irrelevance. I hear the GOP leadership gives out cookies on Thursday. Don’t want to miss that.
  
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- LongRange
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:45pm
  Darwin became a Christian before his death… http://www.beaconmbc.com/articles/thebeliever.htm
  
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- Dan_o
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:45pm
  It’s not at all surprising they are disliked. They claim to stand for conservative people with backbones and don’t. They left isn’t going to like them because of the ‘R’ next to their name. The people who do vote for them don’t like them because they don’t do their da#$ed job!
  
  Change if you want. I’m not changing. It will just free up a couple of hours and dollars every 2 years for me.
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:59pm
  JUST WAIT UNTIL OBAMA CARE TAXES GO INTO AFFECT NEXT YEAR, WELL SEE.
  
  Senate Democrats are working to attempt to de-fund Obamacare, that is right DEMOCRATS. Remember that not one GOPer voted for Obama Care and now Democrats up for reelection in two years are worried
  
  I hope I am around when Texas secedes, I want to see how the crumbling decadent old USA is going pay for all the debt and Obamacare without Texas’ income and Federal tax payments to Washington.
  Remember that Democrats were working on Laws to allow Hawaii and Key West to secede from the Union. If secession is not allowed how were they going to cast off Hawaii and Key West? Huh?
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:22pm
  These polls probably surprise people here to the same degree they were surprised when Romney lost, especially after hearing FOX, Rush etc. tell you that most Americans believe as you do. They don’t. Polls say one thing and FOX and their pundits and Rush say another.
  
  Sorry. It saddens me to be the one to inform you that most Americans don’t share your beliefs. We the People don’t agree with you. We the People aren’t so stupid to think that if we redistribute an increasingly larger share of the the nations wealth to the top 1%, then the rest of us will benefit.
  
  Bush tried that, remember?
  
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- Patriot Z
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:36pm
  “Yeah, that’s the way to do it. Give up on all of your personal beliefs just to gain political popularity. I am a social conservative as well as a fiscal conservative. I am unwilling to throw away my belief system (which is rooted in my Christian beliefs) just so we might be able to win over the masses. If they don’t like me for my social conservationism, that’s their problem not mine.
  
  BTW, Darwin at the end of his life didn’t even believe in evolution. It is a fairy tale buy hey, if you want to believe that you came from monkeys, be my guest.
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  Bookster thats not what he is saying. he is saying social conservatives can believe what they want but they cant force their lifestyle on liberals anymore than libers can do it to you. believe what you want. but republicans are loosing badly because of the social issues. stick to your moral high ground if you want but you WILL loose. and for what? If i looked into your life im sure i could find ‘objectionale’ things i disagree with and plenty of them. just as you could do mine. but even tho i may disagree, i wont force you to live another way nor will i pay for your mistakes…same goes for me. we libertarians want govt out of our wallets and out of our private lives we dont care which party it is
  
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- georgette
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:42pm
  People tried to tell the Repubs to grow a set and go after this administration well before the election……………….they didn’t………..and now……………….all the Pres has to do is just stand there … do nothing and let it all happen…..continue blaming and trying to destroy the Repubs….why wouldn’t he? no one is playing hardball……………………they’re going to be blamed anyway so why don’t they go big and say helllll nooooooo….about time they started some exposes, start making damning information known thru various sources……………..what have they got to lose?
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:08pm
  Please, even “Answers in Genesis” doesn’t believe this fable, and they believe in lots of fables: http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2009/03/31/darwins-deathbed-conversion-legend
  
  But face it. If he had on his deathbed, what would that mean? If Newton had declared on his deathbed that his laws of gravity were false, would that invalidate them?
  
  The facts of evolution don’t depend on the belief on any individual, including Alfred Russell Wallace. The fact of evolution is unquestioned, even by the Pope and most educated Christians. Scientists have moved on, on this topic no less the idea that the world is a flat.
  
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- AUsername
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 9:48pm
  we should purge the neo cons and zionists out of our party.
  
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- scissorflash
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 10:11pm
  That’s right, split the conservative vote! I’m all for it!
  
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- Grey Eagle
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:10pm
  I do not pay any attention to anything coming from NBC. I do know that I don’t want anything to do with liberals.
  
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- John_Free
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:46pm
  Folks don’t realize that the media is in on this….the media being an arm of the NWO needs to destroy conservationism in all its forms….and they will be successful cause they hold all the cards.
  
  There will be no political solution, not even libertarian…but there will be a NWO.
  
  Watch and see.
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 1:15am
  Do you really believe a poll conducted by “chosen people” at NBC and WSJ? I know I sure don’t. It would be like Pravda conducting a poll during the Soviet Union days. Our Juden Marxist Media is no different than the old Pravda. Our Marxist Media lies, cheats, and steals to influence pubic opinion.
  
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- MachIV
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 6:34am
  The LOSERtarian party seems to be mostly made up of Blame-Israel-Firsters. No thanks.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 7:26am
  It doesn’t matter what they think or how many polls they take.
  ***
  Yes it does matter how many polls they take. Polls are taken simply to make news & therefore shape opinion. The manner a poll question is crafted is important as well as the group of people asked & how they are characterized or mischaracterized. Polls can be used for propaganda every but as much as leaflets dropped by a plane are in a war.
  
  We just came of a political campaign. Romney was outspent. The republican were outspent. That matters. I have seen fairer election runs by military dictator ships in South America. I know. I saw the campaign commercials, know what information was given, how many minutes they ran etc. The party in power did not win and there were no union thugs, Black Panthers or other violence.
  
  Freaking libs complain about FoxNews & its market share. Two points. First, if you add up the markets share of ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, PBS & CNN, they are more than FoxNews. Second if you belly ache about talk radio, there are many liberal talkers. On top of that Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report slant left as do the newspapers. All that market share by liberal over the past 80 years has an effect.
  
  Also having an effect is that young people tend to be liberal but get more conservative as they get older & wiser. They are subjected to political indoctrination since about 1910 (The Industrial Workers Society). It only got worse in the 1960s.
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 7:56am
  “…What those numbers make clear is that the Republican brand is badly damaged. It is regarded by too many people as an uncompromising relic of the past …”
  Not really: what those numbers make clear is that people see no difference between wussy GOP and despicable Demoncrats.
  
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- techengineer11
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 8:28am
  Obviously the result of the propaganda machine being in the hands of such a vile perverted and diabolical minority.
  
  As long as this filth and the shills that promote it continue to reign in America, she will continue down the highway to hell.
  
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- pdw
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 8:54am
  The Republicans did not lose this election hate and division won. So if you think changing parties and let these anti-constitutionalists win again then go ahead and help give your country away.
  
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- Bub47
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 9:37am
  PDW: So then the answer is to be a Republican? Given how this election was run they will never win another unless they out-cheat the Dems. That paradym is over. Wake up and smell the coffee.
  
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- YouCantExplainThat
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 9:54am
  Social Darwinism is a disgusting and unjust idea to live by, and more importantly hurts as all overall. By helping your fellow man you help yourself, and if everyone helps each other out it makes everyone better. It is just like playing team sports, you gotta play well together, you can’t carry the whole team on your back. Also for all you christians, isn’t that part of your beliefs? Didn’t jesus say help each other out?
  
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- SimpleTruths
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 10:01am
  BOOKSTER
  Why isn’t it enough to live YOUR life in accordance with YOUR personal beliefs? Why do you have impose your beliefs on others?
  BTW – Is one of your beliefs include thinking it’s alright to lie? Because that’s what you did in saying Darwin didn’t believe in evolution at that end of his life. He had second thoughts about some of his earlier hypothesis on his THEORIES of evolution, but not in his belief in evolution itself.
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 1:55pm
  Tell the Lies, loud and long enough, and the MORONS
  will believe the Bullshi*…keep the lies coming Demorats..
  the MSM won’t call you out, thanks to O’Blamer…….
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:03pm
  @Norm D. Plume
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:21pm
  @Bookster:
  
  Welcome to irrelevance. I hear the GOP leadership gives out cookies on Thursday. Don’t want to miss that.
  
  Ya’ and Dembotards serve a good plate of bullshi* daily… amazing how many eat it up..
  Bookster, spot on :
  Liberalism is a mental disorder.
  Progressives are a virus.
  Democrats are Godless.
  MSNBC=Hell’s webcam.
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:09pm
  Polls from:NBC and the Wall Street Journal. Liberal BS..
  These Journalist have lost ALL creditability. obama CRAP..
  Not buying this swill .;
  
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- vilma
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 4:52pm
  Hey Proudcap. I already left the repub wimps behind. We need to swing the good reublicans over to a good party. This is the second straight lose due the repub establishment. They are all progressives and don’t care about our country. I feel sorry for my grand children’s futures.
  
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- Pompeiijazz98
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 7:15am
  I am with you. I quit being a Republican a long time ago (and I am sure as hell not a Democrat).
  
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- jmm124567
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 1:10pm
  @Bookster “I am unwilling to throw away my belief system (which is rooted in my Christian beliefs) just so we might be able to win over the masses.”
  
  SEE THIS IS THE EXACT PROBLEM!
  
  RELIGIOUS RIGHT PEOPLE WON’T CHANGE OR COMPROMISE AND ARE TOO EXTREME!
  
  BARRY GOLDWATER WARNED US BACK IN THE 80′S AND 90′S ABOUT BRINGING THESE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE AND ISSUES INTO THE PARTY AND POLITICS.
  
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BasketFullOfPuppies
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:10pm
And, that is the biggest problem of the GOP. They are more concerned with having the appearance of being a great party, than with BEING a great party. I could care less about Rubio and Jindal, just as the the GOP could care less about me.

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- emoore54
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:36pm
  I agree with you on that. Bobby Jindahl?really? what a puke. and Rubio, I have to say there is something about him I do not trust. I for once would like to see a politician with some grit, tell the truth and stick to his or her convictions. I know I am living in a fantasy.
  
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- PAPPY72
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:40pm
  You probably don’t trust Rubio because he’s a Jeb Bush Protege.
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:52pm
  The biggest problem with the GOP is they want to keep running the same ole’ same ole’ people that most of us are tired of dealing with. You can only force so much down our throats before we choke.
  
  In NO event would I ever become a democrat, but those 3rd party people are killing us, taking away votes from the GOP’s and handing it over to the dems on a silver platter. No wonder we lost.
  I’ve considered in the past looking at the 3rd party, but there aren’t enough involved to cause anything but problems and end up skrueing all of us. The dems are hateful, mean, harmful, unethical people, so why give them the edge by taking away so many votes for a 3rd party?
  
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- BasketFullOfPuppies
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:15pm
  @oneshiner – I have to disagree with you. When they added up the numbers that went to 3rd party candidates, it wouldn’t have covered the spread. The numbers that really the put the election in BO’s pocket were the people that voted in 2008 and didn’t in 2012. I suspect that these were the same people that said they would vote their conscience and when there was no candidate that would pass muster with that conscience, they stayed home. Personally, I think it’s only going to get worse, as conditions get worse in the country. A third party, that embraces the things that EVERYONE can agree on, and leaves the rest to the states, “might” have a chance. But, if the GOP continues to want to be democrat lite, there’s a lot of people that are going to stay with Coke, instead of switching to Pepsi, because it’s “the real thing” and they’ll get more that way… until it runs out and we’re all screwed (which is probably very close).
  
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- redandbluearethesame
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 12:25am
  Oneshiner,
  
  Don’t worry about voting anti-whoever, vote with your heart. Repubs have done a fine job of pushing Libertarians into their own tent-see Gary Johnson. But we are growing, and you are shrinking. Keep your social wedge issues, we want real freedom and liberty. This up and coming generation will spell the end of the GOP and the dawn of the new Libertarian party. Get on board or get run over. Or just keep living in denial in your comfy Fox-Rush-Hannity-Beck bubble, I have a feeling thats what you will do anyway.
  
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- Raging_Waters
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 1:03am
  Anyone who won’t admit both parties are corrupt is in denial. Most Repulicans are now RINO’S and they have screwed their supporters over. People who think many conservatives just didn’t show up to the polls need a reality check. Did everyone just suddenly forget about those huge Chick-fil-a lines?
  
  Mitt Romney wasn’t that bad! Definitely not some perfect candidate, but way more quailified than Obama, and the Republican platform was not bad either. It’s not that less conservatives showed up to the polls, it’s that less liberals showed up so the democrats had to make up for it by voter fraud.
  
  After Obama’s first lackluster term, even many of his supporters got sick of his empty promises. Not even Obama’s semi-blackness could save him.
  
  Luckily for the democrats, the RNC signed a Consent Decree 31 years ago that now gives democrats free range to commit voter fraud in minority districts, as well as districts who are deemed to have a “substantial” amount of ethnic minorities. The Republicans tried to get the Decree vacated or modified, but it just so happened that an Obama appointed judge was there to deny their request to vacate the Decree.
  
  So now, you see, if you live in a minority district, or a district that has “substantial” ethnic minorities, your vote is nearly worthless, the democrats can cheat..even if most of the minorities don’t vote democrat.
  
  The only solution to fix this pathetic problem is to form a new conservative party, who can legally
  
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- Raging_Waters
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 1:17am
  ..who can legally challenge voter fraud.
  
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- lthm
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 3:10am
  Well no kidding, Raging_Waters.
  
  “Mitt Romney wasn’t that bad! Definitely not some perfect candidate, but way more quailified than Obama”
  
  The kid working the counter at your Chick-fil-a would be more qualified than Obama. Heck, the sandwich itself would be more qualified than him.
  
  But Romney was beyond just “not some perfect candidate.” Romney is every bit as progressive as Obama, he just has a brain and a conscience. But he would have kept us on this same road to destruction. Romney was at one point or another in his career on both sides of the abortion debate, gay rights, gun control & other issues. He has no strong feelings one way or the other and would have gone whichever way he thought the wind was blowing.
  
  Romney was incapable of standing for issues and was unable to excite conservatives, libertarians and others.Romney was firmly in the Old Guard Republican role. Pandering to the non-existant “independents” who will vote for Republicans who lean left enough. Pandering to the media in hopes they might run a positive story about him once in awhile. andering to the liberal progressive elitists who are interested only in bringing the United States of America down to the level of other countries.
  
  We need someone to run who has true conservative and even libertarian values. Someone who is not afraid to stand up to the progressives wholeheartedly. That’s the only way to win. And yes, that means someone with principles. Like Ron Paul.
  
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Beachbaby
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:09pm
The dems are the most evil on earth. Frantic baby killers. God killers. People who made it possible for rapists to live in neighborhoods instead of going to jail. Bestiality legal ( they hate goats I guess ) Women who look like men. Treasonous leaders who lust after underage popsicle stars. Crackheads. DRUNKS. Thieves. Dogs. Pigs. Hogs. Snakes. Skanks. Hos. Thats a Dem.

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- randy
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:29pm
  Don’t forget the union thugs…
  
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- freepr008
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:56pm
  And all that made America exactly what….?
  
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- CatB
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 12:06am
  If the Dems didn’t have the MSM spinning for them .. and idiots who believe them and can’t think for themselves .. they would be TOAST .. for all the reasons mentioned here and more.
  
  Remember Benghazi and Fast and Furious.
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:17pm
  And we all have O;Blamer to thank for bringing the country together.
  Thanks BO !! can I get ma’ bama fo’ now ??
  
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tothepoint
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:08pm
This is no surprise.

Obama and his gang, the lefty Dems, the lefty Dem mainstream media, Hollywood Hypocrites, lefty college & University professors, and many others have unfairly demonized and lied about the Republicans repeatedly.

This is nothing new. Those who know US history recall the Democrats did the same thing to Republican President Abraham Lincoln.

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- DoseofReality
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 8:17am
  You are so incorrect in your assesment its not even funny. To see the reason Republicans are viewed badly by the majority of the country, all one has to do is come on this site, or free republic and read the posts. Frankly stated, so many on the right are angry, bitter and just come off as mean spirited and bigoted. Its a shame becasue arguing intellectually for small government and more personal freedoms would win over a large majority of the country but people cant get past the pig headedness, the desire to go back instead of forward, the anti-intellectualism (I swear people are almost proud to be ignorant), the neanderthal views on rape and women, the outright racism, etc. If the republicans want to be relevant in the future and get their message of small government out there, you need to drop this anger/hatred/anti-intellectualism and come into the 21st century.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 9:50am
  LOL doseofidiocy, apparently you’ve never taken a trek over to Huffpo, DailyKoz, WaPo, NYTimes and seen the absolute filth spewing from them. You need to pull the log out of your own eye before complaining about the splinter in another’s eye. But, to you, your brand of politically acceptable hatred is ok. Hatred, racism, bigotry, misogyny is all acceptable if you’re a liberal, and you frame it right.
  
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soybomb315_II
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:06pm
65% said the deal should involve spending cuts – that is one good thing

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- OhioRifleman
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:34pm
  It is a blasphemy against the Statists for a Dem to utter the phrase ‘cut spending’. In reality, it is the only cure for the problem, yet is heresy to the new religion of the Left.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 10:21pm
  “It is regarded by too many people as an uncompromising relic of the past — a party that lacks new ideas and is, therefore, forced to largely serve as a blockade to the other side.”
  
  Sure that would naturally be the opinion of anyone who is VOID of conviction or principles.
  Naturally anyone on the government teet is going to vilify those who threaten their gravy train.
  
  “uncompromising relic of the past — a party that lacks new ideas”
  
  Words spoken by people with the spine of jellyfish
  
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gbfreak
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:01pm
And the socialist train pushes on!

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SaveAmericaFromTyranny
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:00pm
You have GOT to be kidding! Who on earth did they poll – democrats? Any poll that would say anyone supports the hating haters on the left is one more propaganda joke from the left.

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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:05pm
  Ah..yup!
  
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- iampraying4u
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:08pm
  God said we will be the most hated of all people so whats new
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 9:52am
  NBC/WSJ….was there any other possible result of the poll?
  
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- SimpleTruths
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 12:54pm
  Keep denying reality, you see where it got you in 2012. 2014 is going to be more of the same as long as you don’t believe you’re lying eyes.
  
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civilwarcometh
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:00pm
There is only one way to fix this country and people are to scared to do what needs to be done. Keep lieing to yourselves as they take complete control and its to late. I’m not going to kneel before no man and i’m not going to be controled. Live free or die trying!

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cantstandlibs
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:59pm
Well, let’s see… Liberals hate the GOP for obvious reasons. Conservatives like me hate the GOP because they hate me, marginalize our views, cave whenever it is possible, without even a good reason. They run campaigns to the left (usually) of even their liberal opponents (see McCain v B.O.) Independents who actually want business to thrive probably look at their fecklessness against tyranny and shake their heads. The GOP hated Reagan, the establishment hates true conservatives, period, thus I hate them. I will only contribute to individual campaigns. I hope Bone-head is replaced as speaker soon. We have no hope in this group of liberal-light repubics.

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- Frodo RinosBane
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:01pm
  Touche!
  
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- Ohello
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:06pm
  I know bone head personally from westchester Ohio, No principles then, know backbone then. Past performance is the best predictor of future behavior. Hope he proves me wrong but bone headed thinking is genetic in this case.
  
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Frodo RinosBane
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:58pm
Seriously thinking about burning my GOP card. Since Reagan, they’ve never represented me anyway.

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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:11pm
  I agree with you, the democrats are definitely the way to vote.
  We will all be lining up for the state made vodka in no time.
  
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Zatoichi
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:58pm
I say we should be like the demonrats, name call, lie, accuse, use foul language and beat up anyone who doesn’t agree, maybe then we’ll get some respect.

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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:09pm
  You mean like…fight fire with fire?
  Sorta like …get an account on MSNBC and troll on the lefties?
  
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- scissorflash
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 10:13pm
  Die GOP, die!
  
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TRILO
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:56pm
The republican party has more than a branding issue to deal with. They have completely abandoned their core principles. They preach freedom, liberty, fiscal responsibility then vote the absolute opposite; NDAA, CISPA, budget resolutions to extend spending, debt ceiling increases, etc., etc.

Boehner is nothing but a weak cry baby. The republican leadership in DC have further eroded their popularity because of their weak and conciliatory actions on the fiscal cliff.

The republican party is history as far as I am concerned.

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Exidor
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:54pm
NBC took a poll, probably in Chicago, of mostly Democrats.

I’m shocked at the results….

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- bava
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:59pm
  Yeah…they’re all wrong, except you. Truth sucks, doesn’t it.
  
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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:15pm
  I thought it was a NPR poll
  
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- cbrown
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:15pm
  Don’t like the poll results, the problem is the poll takers.
  
  Well the 2012 election proved what a bunch of looser Republican were. They did not believe those polls. Go back to your echo chamber.
  
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- VanGrungy
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:28pm
  The election proved the voters are programed morons
  
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- cbrown
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:12pm
  @VanGrungy
  
  For 200 years our collective wisdom was great but for the last 4 years they became morons. It’s time to wake up and smell the coffee.
  
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- freepr008
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:50pm
  Yeah! Comments like that make republicans look very approachable . Keep telling every voter who don’t vote republican is a moron. Sure is the wise thing to do.
  
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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 12:33am
  Democracy is always a doomed prospect, even when their power is limited in the framework of a Republic. When common sense died through the 90s and 2000s, this country’s days were numbered. We don’t need anecdotal evidence CBrown to say people are getting stupider, just look at the statistics about education (even though more money is being thrown at it than in the history of this nation) and samplings of how many people understand basic information regarding civics.
  
  They want to be serfs so bad, well, their wish is about to come true.
  
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- cbrown
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 8:48am
  @Lord_Frostwind
  
  Did you know that more post-graduates voted for Obama than Romney? What has education got to do with folks being stupid?
  
  BTW in 60s more than 50% of the population did not know who was our vice-president. These days there are many outlets that show us these stupid folks but they always existed.
  
  Our better days are yet to come. We will continue to dominate for the next two decades and more. Only ignorant folks are down on America. We had a setback but we are pulling out of it. We will be a dominant power on all fronts.
  
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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 12:14pm
  Your optimism is admirable CBrown, I will give you that, but tragically misplaced I fear. I suppose history will be the only judge of which of us is right in the end, you chose to believe this generation is far wiser than I give it credit for, while I believe they are full of useless knowledge that only breeds conceit and arrogance.
  
  This nation is heading for crashes on multiple fronts, and if people manage to endure it half as well as they believe they can, I will be impressed.
  
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JRook
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:53pm
Finally a poll that we can trust as being accurate and reflective of reality.

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spfoam1
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:53pm
We know NBC and the Washington Compost aren’t biased at all.

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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:38pm
  as long as I gets my Obama-phone I’m with ya bro
  
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Cavallo
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:52pm
Duh.. one party caters to its base, the other ignores its base and marginally caters to the others base.. not enough to be liked by them though. So they have done an excellent job of annoying all sides by trying to be everything to everyone.

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- Todd P
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:22pm
  Eventually there will only be one party anyhow – you either are a member of The People’s Party or else you are the opposition.
  
  (And we all know what happens to members of the opposition…..)
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:51pm
“The survey – conducted a month after November’s election – also shows a positive uptick in opinion toward President Barack Obama”
I find it difficult to believe that this is really true considering how polls have been so skewed for decades. Not to mention the medias willingness to pile on while kissing the emperor’s tuckus.
Its really funny to sit here and watch Neal Cavuto talking with Stennie Hoyer as he blames the Republicans for the upcoming tax hike that will hit the middle class. This was the same tax hike that Clinton hit everybody with in ’93. The very first bill he signed. Now, how can these dems praise the higher taxes in the Clinton years and with a straight face accuse the Republicans of preparing to perpetrate the same upon us? Tis a true mind fick, but what else can be expected by the left?

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benahan davids
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:51pm
very simple. 1776freedom got the main point. 2 parties, so one is the bad guy. The GOP only lost by 2-3 million votes so they arent done by any means. I am waiting on the GOP to have a rebirth and come out strong. They need to change some stuff.

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- EGsimi1776
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:56pm
  well, they wont get my vote (again, 3 elections running) until they tack right towards true fiscal responsibility, smaller government, and freedom… actively move to strike down the patriot act as well as NDAA, CISPA, etc… I vote principal, not party.
  
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- jay1975
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 2:31pm
  2-3 million votes equaled how many electoral votes? The GOP is losing states every election cycle it seems. In the last six elections, the GOP candidate for President won the popular vote only once. If this trend continues, the GOP will be a permanent minority party. Maybe that is a good thing in that it will allow a true Constitution supporting party to rise.
  
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Legion5
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:50pm
Both parties suck and are doing everything they can to destroy America, but that is what you get when you allow your government to become a pure democracy. In short the majority rule is mob rule and we have no one watching our backs any more…

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HKS
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:47pm
Well, let me guess, they took this poll in NYC or maybe Chicago or maybe LA or San Fran, right.

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TROLLMONGER
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:46pm
You dont need a poll to know that. The GOP is obsolete. Now is time to push the GOP party of greed and racism aside and welcome in ideas of inclusion, fairness, and diversity.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:53pm
  Who is greedy and racist? You best go take a look in the mirror there Trogmonger
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:53pm
  @trollmonger,
  
  Guess who didn’t shoot up a mall in Oregon and kill people?
  
  It wasn’t an old white male Beck supporter. It was someone your age with a stolen gun…..
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:56pm
  As long as you are not white, Asian, male, and engage in a productive measure of employment. Give them everything they want.. one thing that isn’t biased is math. The math will destroy all the rest.
  
  USA RIP
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:59pm
  Hi MONK, I don’t think that TROG will ever respond to you on that point. Doesn’t fit his religious beliefs.
  
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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:00pm
  In the fetal position with drool on my chin,
  I ‘ll never cross wits with Trolltonger again.
  
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- All Pro
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:20pm
  Republicans will never welcome libertarians.
  
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- strawberry411a
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 10:20am
  Trollmonger: NAZI truth.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:45pm
So is this the end of the GOP, and the birth of a new party, or are we seeing the final rising of a one party system as in the communist nations?

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:55pm
  SNOW, back when I was a kid there was almost only the Dems as it was. We might be that way again for a while, but it will not last. The people will eventually see how they have been bamboozled again.
  
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- NoNannyState4me
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:05pm
  RJ, when you were a kid the Whigs were just eroding as a party and the New Repubs were comin in. Now is a good time for history to repeat itself in that respect.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:09pm
  NONANNYSTATE4ME, I’m not quite that full of cobwebs, LOL. But, I do hope to see a real conservative party come out of all of this and not a number of parties that just slice up the vote. I don’t want to be like Italy in that respect.
  
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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:18pm
  Taxed Enough Already, TEA!
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:19pm
  two parties will never fully represent the broad views of americans and keeping the system in such a way makes ZERO sense.
  
  It also is contrary to your mission. For example, if the Constitution, Libertarian, and Republican parties all competed in an election cycle against the other parties….Nobody would get 50% and the “good guys” would easily be able to form a coalition that results in >50%….That is how it should be. No wasted votes and a proportional representation based on vote totals
  
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ResistSocialism
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:43pm
Rubio 2016!!! Like that guy he is full of common sense.

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- TRILO
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:49pm
  So the NDAA, CISPA, Dream Act and sequestration are examples of common sense?
  
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- ResistSocialism
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:16pm
  @TRILO you are suggesting that Rubio accepts these things hook line and sinker which I doubt is the case.
  
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- Norm D. Plume
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:54pm
  @Resist:
  
  His voting record does not lie. Assuming that he is NOT comfortable with these infringements of our liberties, is dangerous as Hell. If he were against these provisions and acts, as he should be, he would have voted AGAINST them.
  
  Rubio is another Trojan Horse. Just like West. TRAITORS to We the People.
  
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- DIR
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:21pm
  Yes that Rubio is a real schmuck, Crist is the man, especially when he looses. We need more like him, not that we already don’t have enough. s/o
  
  Isn’t it strange how certain respondants here always talk about the voting records of conservatives, who are liked, for instance West, now Rubio, but they never compare it with the Repubs liberal counterpart. Compared to libs, Rubio looks like a saint.
  
  As far as Republicans being the most disliked, and I am by no means a huge fan of certain factions, the Democrap part is the most reviled and if it isn’t it sould be. Personally I think, in fact I know, this survey is full of crap and part of the propaganda war. Some should do a survey which shows a elephant next to back end of the ass and ask which party owns the mascot. When everyone identifies it correctly it should be published that everyone thinks dems are a$$es. They would be right on all accounts.
  
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- Norm D. Plume
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 1:18pm
  Why should anyone comment on the abhorrent voting records of the Democrats?
  
  We all KNOW they’re a bunch of freakin’ communists.
  
  We need to make sure that people KNOW that the “conservatives” lauded around here, like West and Rubio, are part and parcel of the same problem.
  
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- glassaudioguy
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 10:04pm
  @Norm- Your point sounds good until you consider our Founders believed our Constitution assumes a moral and religious people and that “it is wholly unsuited to the governing of any other,” to quote John Adams. I’d say it’s way past any chance of purely political reforms. Third parties won’t necessarily do it for us, or has everyone forgotten what a mediocre governor Jesse Ventura turned out to be?
  
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- glassaudioguy
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 10:07pm
  @ Norm- looks like my comment got into the wrong column. My previous post was to one of yours regarding dropping social conservatism.
  
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Unbelievable
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:40pm
What do you expect when you have every single Progressive (including the MSM) demonizing every breathe every conservative takes. They just pound and pound away at the demonization day in and day out… and we never put a stop to it!! It’s time we speak up and insist they STOP!! We need to call them out on it every single time!! Time to push back!!

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- JRook
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:51pm
  How would that account for the Republicans that feel that way. Pretty sure they don’t watch MSNBC.
  
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- justwow
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:52pm
  Republicans are hated by the left because they are so badly portrayed by the MSM. Republicans are hated by the right because they are so frickin spineless and wishy-washy they won’t even stand up for themselves. If they would stop letting themselves be bullied by the media, they would get a lot more respect and support from “we the people”.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:07pm
  JCROOK, I’ve said it a number of times here, and GONZO in particular has given me heck about it, but I do check in on BSNBC as well as CNN. Makes for a great laugh to hear the lies from Miss Chrissy Matthews, Martin Bashir, and Lawrence O’Donnell.
  
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- ModerationIsBest
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:11pm
  Yup,keep blaming the media. Lol
  
  This is another reason why everyone hates the GOP.
  
  Anytime they win on something they beat their chests and say how great they are.
  
  When they lose on something it’s “the main stream media” “activist judges” and “progressives.” lol
  
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- Norm D. Plume
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:04pm
  @ModerationIsBest:
  
  You can’t deny that the media is naught but Marxist agitprop.
  
  That said, the Republicans do it wrong, just like you’ve outlined here.
  
  There is no leadership among Republicans, except that which goes-along-to-get-along, spends more money than the Democrats (but on the military, instead of on the people — though both parties just LOVE to give money to their corporate cronies,) and who want to ensure that nobody strays outside the bounds of upright Christian orthodoxy.
  
  Sorry, but that vision is DEAD.
  
  BURY IT, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!
  
  What the Republicans are missing, is that that is NOT where the American people are. We know there’s a storm brewing, and we want someone who actually talks SENSE. We need LEADERSHIP. We need a REAL STATESMAN. At least, those of us who know that we cannot tax and spend ourselves into prosperity do. And really, THAT is the segment of the population the Republicans should be addressing.
  
  But they won’t.
  
  So they’ll die.
  
  And good riddance.
  
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1776freedomofspeech
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:38pm
Ok, you got two parties to choose from really. So one is gonna be the bad guy.

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- DagneyT
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:47pm
  Maybe it is time for those of us who love our Constitution, love Our Lord, to join the Constitution party? Independent Party? We have tried to drag the GOP kicking and screaming back to the right without success, I know this because I’ve had to resign from my board position on a GOP women’s group for their party loyalty, and their undermining Ted Cruz because he said, “both parties are at fault”. Meanwhile, the GOP has turned their back on conservatism in favor of becoming more like obozo’s supporters. They genuinely wish we would go away. So what choice do we have? The republican party is dead!
  
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- Norm D. Plume
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:16pm
  If the Constitution Party would get off their theocratic high horse, I might be able to support them.
  
  If the Libertarian Party would just stop being such 455h0l3s, I might be better able to support them.
  
  Some party needs to say:
  
  Abortion cannot be regulated at the Federal level, just like drugs, just like other stuff that everyone finds morally objectionable. This is not in the charter of Federal powers and, unless and until there is an Amendment to the Constitution which grants the Federal government those powers, discussion of them at the Federal level is moot. Moot, that is, except for the discussion of how to most quickly and efficiently remove all rules, laws and agencies which would influence the States or the People in these areas.
  
  Abortion should be addressed in this way:
  
  A person is considered clinically dead, when there are no brain waves measurable by an EEG. A fetus is not a person, until there are measurable brain waves on an EEG. Yes, it likely happens that a woman may not know she’s pregnant until after the fetus has brain activity. Since our Declaration of Independence enumerates life among the rights inherent to the nature of Man (whether you believe these rights are given us by our Creator, or by Nature, is irrelevant — we find these truths to be self-evident, after all,) we as a party urge States and People to legislate according to this philosophy. But since the Federal government has no say in this matter, we decline to do it federa
  
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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on December 14, 2012 at 7:33am
  and the next day it’s going to be the other guy. Two party system is a joke.
  
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