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Mayberry Machiavelli

(21,096 posts)
Sat Sep 28, 2013, 05:33 PM Sep 2013

Do you know any GOP voters who are uneasy about hostage taking as a method of governing?

Any who are disturbed that their party has latched onto these kind of methods instead of trying to broaden their appeal and get more seats?

I don't see any of this stopping unless popular disgust and depressed turnout among saner GOP voters resulted in them losing the House in a wave election big enough to overcome gerrymandered districts.

Fox News and their whole media apparatus doesn't let the message ever moderate, but I bet they'd start to change the message if it became clear that "all wingnut all the time" was actually achieving negative results.

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Do you know any GOP voters who are uneasy about hostage taking as a method of governing? (Original Post) Mayberry Machiavelli Sep 2013 OP
No. But I dont know any sane GOP voters. nt bunnies Sep 2013 #1
The Repubs around me are ecstatic about the prospects of a shutdown. LonePirate Sep 2013 #2

LonePirate

(13,416 posts)
2. The Repubs around me are ecstatic about the prospects of a shutdown.
Sat Sep 28, 2013, 06:02 PM
Sep 2013

This is the happiest they have been since the 2010 elections happened.

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