Rockefeller Republicans

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Hopefully never.

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Between 2015 and 2020 at the earliest.

LOL, yeah right.

Face it, Rockefeller Republicanism is dead.

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Between 2015 and 2020 at the earliest.

LOL, yeah right.

Face it, Rockefeller Republicanism is dead.

I said at the earliest. They could reappear much later, or not reappear at all (which I seriously doubt).

It's the latter. (You're usually wrong.)

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For the future of our country, hopefully very soon.

lol

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For the future of our country, hopefully very soon.

lol

Well if the real conservatives and libertarians leave for a party that actually listens to them, it could happen.

Then the GOP would fall entirely into the hands of neocons like Don and we'd have this:

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Actually that map isn't quite accurate; this is the correct one.

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They're still out there making an impact, albeit in the other party.  A more relavant term for them nowadays should be Gravel Democrats:  Fiscally moderate, socially libertarian, white-collar suburbanites.  My boss is one, she campaigned for Obama, but is a registered independent and self-described "moderate republican".  She despises the Hannity/Limbaugh crowd, but she says Democrats "spend too much money".

Most Rockefeller Republicans were located in the northeast.  They're basically the counterpart to the populist dixiecrats of the South.  Neither party can ever carry both the south and the northeast, since both regions are so culturally polarized against each other. 

Gravel a Rockefeller Republican?

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People love to interpret posts the way they want to on this board.  The times have changed, guys.  Most white collar suburbanites couldn't careless about gays, drugs, school prayer, etc.  Their main issue of concern is economics and inteligent governance.  While they don't align perfectly with the campaign platform of Nelson Rockefeller in 1964, they are the children of this voting demographic, and this is 2010, not 1964!  It's a matter of generational shift. 

P.S. Gravel is a liberal-leaning libertarian on the nolan chart, right cozy next to Jim Jeffords.   

Make sense, please.

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A Rockefeller Republican is a creature made when you take out the few remaining good parts about Republicans, and replace them with the worst parts of Democrats.

What good parts of the Republicans do Rockefeller Republicans have?

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I think 20% of New York Republicans voted for Obama ( last time I checked the exit poll), so it would seem there is still some RR's in that state.

What makes you think those people must be Rockefeller Republicans?

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Unfortunately, probably not. Tea Baggers who control the Republican Party barely tolerate the so called "Republican Establishment" for not being Conservative enough, I highly doubt the party will return to a more liberal sort of Republicanism for at least a couple decades, when the Tea Party nonsense dispels.

Why is it at all 'unfortunate' that the Rockefeller Republicans won't be coming back?

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Unfortunately, probably not. Tea Baggers who control the Republican Party barely tolerate the so called "Republican Establishment" for not being Conservative enough, I highly doubt the party will return to a more liberal sort of Republicanism for at least a couple decades, when the Tea Party nonsense dispels.

Us 'teabaggers' have very little influence on the leadership, if we did McConnell, Steele, Graham, McCain, and all their ilk would have been primaried out long ago.

Seriously. Can you believe how deluded these people are? They think it was the "teabaggers" who ran the Republican Party (and the country) into the ground during eight years of Bush terror?

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Yesterday's Rockefeller Republican is today's DLC Centrist Democrat for sure.

And both are mega-HPs.

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Vepres, why do you suddenly like Rockefeller Republicans, like Chafee and Snowe?