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To: neolib who wrote (751487)	11/6/2013 3:01:54 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1577096

The Republican Party Owes Its Base Some Answers By DANNovember 6, 2013 Everyone has a take on what happened last night fromn New Jersey to Virginia and elsewhere. Most public polls leading up to Election Day had Democrat Terry McAuliffe coasting to victory, some by double digits, in the Virginia governor’s race. Instead he squeaked by, beating Republican Ken Cuccinelli by less than 3 percentage points. via 2013 Virginia election results: Why Terry McAuliffe barely won – POLITICO.com. Michael Barone offers his always insightful take here. 2. The government shutdown didn’t much hurt Republicans. With Cuccinelli ultimately losing by only 2.5%, just imagine if these treachersous Beltway Republicans like Jen Rubin at the Washington Post and Eric Cantor’s Young Guns, now become Mitch McConnell’s Young Punks at the NRSC hadn’t spent the last month running down more conservative elements of their own party in a media read fairly broadly in Northern Virginia. I don’t care if you want to blame the RNC, the RGA, the NRSC, the media and young dumb Republicans like a Josh Holmes, Brian Walsh and Brad Dayspring who live to run to it to get their names in print bashing their own base. The fact is, the establishment GOP cost, not just conservatives, but its own damned party the governorship in Virginia. Someone, or some few people need to be held to account and yes, some heads should roll. Now, all they want to talk about is ObamaCare. As far as I’m concerned, there’s a little unfinished business to address before we get there. If we’re to have this battle, the time is now, so we can come together after the first of the year in time for the mid-terms. But if the base doesn’t come together and fight it now, the usual suspects will only slink away and live to undermine us another day – in and around the primaries and elections of 2014 and 2016. Enough. It should be clear to anyone, Mitch McConnell and the establishment GOP decided to go to war with conservatives and the so called Tea Party over six months ago. The Republican conservative base is either going to come together and fight back, as much as it can, as one now – or it won’t be here in two years to fight for itself, or anything else it purportedly believes in in political terms.

To: neolib who wrote (751487)	11/6/2013 3:43:14 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 1577096

Neolib, A hurricane destroying a town can in fact end up boosting economic activity This is the viewpoint that I reject, because you can easily argue that bombing a city to the ground could "end up boosting economic activity." That flies in the face of common sense, and I don't care how many times so-called "economists" make that argument. If your only measure of progress is how much money circulates, then going around in virtual circles is just as good as actually moving forward. Of course, forward progress is harder to quantify, but it cannot be ignored in sheer pursuit of boosting GDP numbers. Otherwise, you would fundamentally disconnect rising GDP with actual wealth creation, and all the notions of a "growing economy" become meaningless. Tenchusatsu

To: neolib who wrote (751487)	11/6/2013 6:12:48 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577096

Its the old argument about tree's falling when nobody hears them, so was a sound made? If neolib was in the forest......and a tree fell ......and hit him on the head.....would he feel it??