politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 1/29/2009
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(CNN) – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell painted a downright dismal view of the state of his party Thursday afternoon, telling Republican National Committee members the GOP is in grave danger of being marginalized to a regional party.
"We’re all concerned about the fact that the very wealthy and the very poor, the most and least [...]
redstate.com - 1/29/2009
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Last night the House GOP stood together, moderates
and conservatives, and opposed Barack Obama's socialist stimulus scheme....
Today, Mitch McConnell is going to address the Republican National Committee's winter meeting. According to Roll Call, in his ...
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Mitch McConnell Needs Our Help
dontgomovement.com - 1/29/2009
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Grow a Pair…and it appears we’re going to
have to give him some help. Operation Send a...
Pair The DontGo Movement is teaming up with RedState to launch the new “Send a Pair” campaign. The campaign is in place to help Mitch McConnell obtain some much ...
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Mitch McConnell Needs Some Balls
michellemalkin.com - 2/2/2009
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Mitch McConnell Wakes Up, Smells Coffee
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Filed under: Senate, Republicans, Media More evidence of what I was on about this morning, but from an unlikely source, Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader: "We're all concerned about the fact that the very wealthy and the very poor, the most and the least educated, and a majority of minority voters, seem to have more or less stopped paying attention to us... ...And we should be concerned that, as a result of all this, the Republican Party seems to be slipping into a position of being more of a regional party than ...
Regional party.
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Compare: "We’re all concerned about the fact that the very wealthy and the very poor, the most and least educated, and a majority of minority voters, seem to have more or less stopped paying attention to us," the Kentucky Republican said on the second day of the four-day gathering. "And we should be concerned that, as a result of all this, the Republican Party seems to be slipping into a position of being more of a regional party than a national one. "In politics there's a name for a regional party, it's called a minority party," said ...
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McConnell painted a dismal picture of the state of his party.
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