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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Tue Jul 2, 2013, 07:42 AM Jul 2013

The "Selling Out" of the Tea Party by the "Official" Republican Party

Last edited Tue Jul 2, 2013, 09:04 AM - Edit history (2)

The following article really shows the start of the GOP propaganda machine against its Tea Party voters.
Many in the Tea Party will not understand or see this coming.


G.O.P. Groups Offering Cover for Lawmakers on Immigration

Fox News viewers in Florida will see a new commercial in the coming weeks urging them to call Senator Marco Rubio. “Thank him for keeping his promise, and fighting to secure the border,” a narrator says in the ad, which is paid for by the conservative American Action Network.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/us/politics/gop-groups-offering-cover-for-lawmakers-on-immigration.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130702&_r=0


The GOP establishment is moving to control and sell out the Tea Party. The press is not willing to report on this fact.

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The "Selling Out" of the Tea Party by the "Official" Republican Party (Original Post) UCmeNdc Jul 2013 OP
Was that written by Sarah? sinkingfeeling Jul 2013 #1
Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2013 #4
tiny rs- used to entertained w/ hot dog bus rides for a couple years, dumped once they vote R Sunlei Jul 2013 #2
IMO, the "Republican establishment" are the Teabaggers. They control the party now. AlinPA Jul 2013 #3

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Sunlei

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2. tiny rs- used to entertained w/ hot dog bus rides for a couple years, dumped once they vote R
Tue Jul 2, 2013, 10:42 AM
Jul 2013

Squidges and Hobbits are what the Big Rs call the little rs

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