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“The League of Extraordinary Candidates" to primary GOPe
Posted on 10/8/17 at 10:30 pm
Posted on 10/8/17 at 10:30 pm
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This group of individuals, which some are calling “The League of Extraordinary Candidates,” is emerging nationally—a distinct slate of U.S. Senate and House candidates, as well as key gubernatorial contenders, all united in their focus on breaking the logjam in Congress.
“The only thing the Republican establishment has succeeded in is clarifying to the American people that they don’t represent their interests,” Surabian added. “Their repeated failures to govern have only crystallized their lack of vision or backbone. The group of candidates we are looking to support in 2018 are all bound together in their agreement that the new Republican Party must be bold in their thinking and aggressive in their tactics.”
Bye GOPe
This group of individuals, which some are calling “The League of Extraordinary Candidates,” is emerging nationally—a distinct slate of U.S. Senate and House candidates, as well as key gubernatorial contenders, all united in their focus on breaking the logjam in Congress.
“The only thing the Republican establishment has succeeded in is clarifying to the American people that they don’t represent their interests,” Surabian added. “Their repeated failures to govern have only crystallized their lack of vision or backbone. The group of candidates we are looking to support in 2018 are all bound together in their agreement that the new Republican Party must be bold in their thinking and aggressive in their tactics.”
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In other words, conservatives are considering a full slate of candidates nationally in open races and those with Democrat incumbents—and running or actively seeking out serious primary challengers for every GOP incumbent senator up for reelection next year except for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)—all part of an effort to wrest control of the Republican Party
Bye GOPe
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Posted on 10/8/17 at 10:32 pm to Jjdoc
Hostile takeover. 
Posted on 10/8/17 at 10:32 pm to Jjdoc
May cost us power to the progs, but they did it to themselves
This post was edited on 10/8/17 at 10:53 pm
Posted on 10/8/17 at 10:36 pm to Jjdoc
quote:Amazing transformation. A little more than a year ago I thought Ted had cut his own throat. Instead, he fully recognized and embraced the wave of resentment for the GOPe and the strength of Trump's mandate.
except for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
This post was edited on 10/8/17 at 10:37 pm
Posted on 10/8/17 at 10:37 pm to Jjdoc
It's about time!
Big question: How many GOPe pols do a full Benedict Arlen Specter and become DNC, and how many will just tease us like McCain in 2000?
Keep your word or stay home GOPe!
Big question: How many GOPe pols do a full Benedict Arlen Specter and become DNC, and how many will just tease us like McCain in 2000?
Keep your word or stay home GOPe!
Posted on 10/8/17 at 10:38 pm to Jjdoc
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some are calling “The League of Extraordinary Candidates,”
no one's calling them that
Posted on 10/8/17 at 10:39 pm to Jjdoc
Drain the Swamp!
Posted on 10/8/17 at 10:41 pm to HubbaBubba
Shockingly, the republican who fought the best against trump in the primary has ended up being the leader in waiting of the Trumpian hostile takeover. They aren't necessarily friends or even allies, but they are on the same side.
Lion Ted, indeed.
Lion Ted, indeed.
Posted on 10/8/17 at 10:45 pm to Jjdoc
Where do I get on the list? Louisiana's legislature needs some serious sweeping.
Posted on 10/8/17 at 10:45 pm to 90proofprofessional
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no one's calling them that
Link?
Posted on 10/8/17 at 10:49 pm to Gaspergou202
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How many GOPe pols do a full Benedict Arlen Specter and become DNC, and how many will just tease us like McCain in 2000?
This is from that article....
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In West Virginia, McConnell and his allies are pushing a former Democrat who supported Hillary Clinton for president in 2008
Posted on 10/8/17 at 10:49 pm to HubbaBubba
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Amazing transformation. A little more than a year ago I thought Ted had cut his own throat. Instead, he fully recognized and embraced the wave of resentment for the GOPe and the strength of Trump's mandate.
He was my first choice. He walks the walk and talks the talk of conservatism! He would have been president if not for trump. He is a card carrying member of the popular/conservative wave.
The "Lying" Ted was just normal rough and tumble politics, and Trump won fair and square.
He would be a superior replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg or Stephen Breyer on SCOTUS!
Posted on 10/8/17 at 10:55 pm to Gaspergou202
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He was my first choice. He walks the walk and talks the talk of conservatism! He would have been president if not for trump. He is a card carrying member of the popular/conservative wave.
This. He is an anti-establishment conservative with actual bonifieds, conviction, principles, and a record backing up his claims. What Trump did to him was dirty and unnecessary. Cruz should be an ally, not an enemy. It is good that the Trump camp seems to have made peace with Cruz. Cruz and Rand Paul should be the conservatism Trump fights for, not against.
Posted on 10/8/17 at 11:08 pm to kingbob
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What Trump did to him was dirty and unnecessary.
I thought the same thing as well and it enraged me so much beyond belief but time changes and I saw that it was also a precursor to how and why Donald Trump would eventually go on to defeat Crooked Hillary to win the Presidency.
With the media and most GOPe siding with the democrats, Trump rightfully understood that you can never ever show weakness whatsoever and always leave no prisoners alive and that means waging the most brutal, blistering and intense campaign I've ever seen or read about a republican personally waging.
The get me Roger Stone documentary on Netflix really shed a lot of light on this mindset and I really understand it now.
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Cruz and Rand Paul should be the conservatism Trump fights for, not against.
Rand Paul is still grandstanding too much for my taste, not even Ted Cruz is going as far as he did in letting good be the enemy of perfect. Rand really soured my opinion of him after he voted for the skinny repeal but refused to support the a bill that had far more teeth in it in Graham-Cassidy.
Rand doens't have to be GOPe but I'm sick of the purist grandstanding too. Ted Cruz has found the common ground between those two.
Posted on 10/8/17 at 11:13 pm to Sentrius
Ted cruz is on the grassy knoll with the cruz family rifle in hand, giving trump cover fire in the war against globalism
Posted on 10/8/17 at 11:27 pm to el Gaucho
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Ted cruz is on the grassy knoll with the cruz family rifle in hand, giving trump cover fire in the war against globalism
I sense profundity here, but I must admit confusion. Give a poor baw a break and slow this thought down and run it pass me again.
This post was edited on 10/8/17 at 11:29 pm
Posted on 10/9/17 at 12:21 am to HubbaBubba
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Amazing transformation. A little more than a year ago I thought Ted had cut his own throat. Instead, he fully recognized and embraced the wave of resentment for the GOPe and the strength of Trump's mandate.
Ted Cruz was at war with the establishment GOP long before Trump ever became a candidate. Fact. Where I and many others were wrong was that it was Trump and not Cruz who was the only candidate who could defeat Hildebeast.
Posted on 10/9/17 at 12:49 am to Jjdoc
Yes. Now get the word out!!!! This is as important as electing President Trump was. MAGA!!! 
Posted on 10/9/17 at 12:58 am to HubbaBubba
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except for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
Amazing transformation. A little more than a year ago I thought Ted had cut his own throat. Instead, he fully recognized and embraced the wave of resentment for the GOPe and the strength of Trump's mandate.
Umm. Cruz has been on the Constitution Train long before the Trump train was ever put on the tracks.
Posted on 10/9/17 at 9:31 am to troyt37
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Where I and many others were wrong was that it was Trump and not Cruz who was the only candidate who could defeat Hildebeast.
I agree. Cruz would not have carried the rust belt
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