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	<description>Established to communicate mainstream and conservative Republican thinking.  For a brief moment, as Obama swept into office, we felt like we were wandering alone through a socialist desert.  But quickly your hits started adding up, and we know that we’re not alone.  Part of the blame also lies with the leadership of our own Republican Party – mostly for trying to win votes by running RiNO candidates who masquerade as pseudo-Democrats.</description>
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		<title>A Moving Tribute To Union Teachers</title>
		<link>http://rabidrepublicanblog.com/2012/02/04/a-moving-tribute-to-union-teachers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ironmike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dumbing down]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For 40+ years your left-wing union-controlled teachers have been dumbing down your kids &#8211; to the point that they are incapable of paying attention to politics or world events &#8211; or their own future.  They have succeeded:]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For 40+ years your <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>left-wing union-controlled teachers</strong></span> have been <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>dumbing down your kids</strong></span> &#8211; to the point that they are incapable of paying attention to politics or world events &#8211; or their own future.  They have succeeded:<br />
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		<title>A Failure To Reload</title>
		<link>http://rabidrepublicanblog.com/2012/02/02/a-failure-to-reload/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ironmike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[His Royal Teleprompters &#8211; same speech &#8211; year-to-year! Remember 2008, when Liberals were telling us this vacuous fraud was a ‘21st Century Genius’?  BTW, you PAY his speechwriters. Are they using WhiteOut &#8211; or Find and Replace?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>His Royal Teleprompters &#8211; <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em><strong>same speech</strong></em></span> &#8211; year-to-year!<br />
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<p>Remember<span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong> 2008</strong></span>, when Liberals were telling us this <strong>vacuous fraud</strong> was a ‘<em><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>21</strong><sup>st</sup><strong> Century Genius</strong></span></em>’?  BTW, you <em><strong>PAY</strong></em> his speechwriters. Are they using WhiteOut &#8211; or Find and Replace?</p>
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		<title>Morning-After Oops for Romney</title>
		<link>http://rabidrepublicanblog.com/2012/02/01/morning-after-oops-for-romney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ironmike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[CNN interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I'm not concerned]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Make that a DOUBLE Oops! First, Republican Rules were set up so that any state primary held before April 1st must be split proportionally. Mitt won’t be a ‘winner-take-all’ in Florida. He’ll get way less than 50 delegates, and Newt will get some. More fur to fly. Then there is the unfortunate CNN interview Wednesday [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3 style="text-align: center;"><img class="alignright  wp-image-15509" title="I don't care about the very poor" src="http://rabidrepublicanblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/I-dont-care-about-the-very-poor.jpg" alt="" width="206" height="114" />Make that a<br />
<span style="color: #ff0000;">DOUBLE</span> <span style="color: #800000;">Oops!</span></h3>
<p>First, Republican Rules were set up so that any state primary held before April 1<sup>st</sup> must be split <strong>proportionally</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Mitt won’t be a ‘winner-take-all’ in Florida.</strong> He’ll get way less than 50 delegates, and Newt will get some. More fur to fly.</p>
<p>Then there is the <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>unfortunate CNN interview Wednesday morning</strong></span>, when Romney [perhaps flushed with his victory] was horribly inarticulate making a point about ‘<span style="color: #800000;"><em><strong>being for the middle class</strong></em></span>’.</p>
<p>He managed to prove himself an upper-crust patrician when he said ‘<span style="color: #800080;"><em><strong>I&#8217;m not concerned about the very poor, &#8211; they have a safety net…</strong></em></span>’</p>
<p><span id="more-15508"></span></p>
<p>This plays right into Obama’s hands.  This is <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Basic Class Warfare 101</strong></span>.  It is from the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>PROGRESSIVE&#8217;S PLAYBOOK!</strong></span></p>
<p>When you watch the video, &#8211; Mitt doubles down on his blunder.<br />
<iframe title="MRC TV video player" src="http://www.mrctv.org/embed/109634" frameborder="0" width="525" height="295"></iframe></p>
<p>That gasping sound you hear in the background is the <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>dancing RiNOs on Merrimac Street</strong></span> suddenly watching their rich wonder-boy screw up live on national TV.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Mitt’s biggest problem is Mitt</strong></span>. He is so used to hanging around and working with highly intelligent people [aka <em><strong>hanging with the hob-nobs</strong></em>] that he has absolutely no concept about how poor and middle class folks live day-to-day.</p>
<p>And thus he has no clue about how arrogant and pretentious he acts and sounds. When he steps in it &#8211; he makes it worse.</p>
<p>Four years in the making, this video is a ‘<span style="color: #0000ff;"><em><strong>now-to-November</strong></em></span>’ sound bite.</p>
<p>   /s/ Iron Mike<br />
   Old Soldier, &#8211; Still Good for Parts!</p>
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		<title>LtGov Tim Murray: A Clumsy Liar</title>
		<link>http://rabidrepublicanblog.com/2012/01/29/ltgov-tim-murray-a-clumsy-liar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ironmike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This moral midget is just a heartbeat away from the Corner Office… Ain’t cha proud!?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This moral midget is just a heartbeat away from the Corner Office… Ain’t cha proud!?<br />
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		<title>Crickets From Merrimac Street!</title>
		<link>http://rabidrepublicanblog.com/2012/01/27/crickets-from-merrimac-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ironmike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob Maginn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MassGOP Leadership  S-I-L-E-N-T on Obama’s SOTU Shhhh! We wouldn&#8217;t want to alienate any of our neighborhood Democrats. So if the PotUS delivers a hour-long campaign speech &#8211; full of bluster, lies, and threats, &#8211; why haven’t we heard rebuttal and indignation from our ‘Republican Leadership’? They’ve had two days!?! But ‘NEW LEADERSHIP’ in the person [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://massgop.com/"><img class="alignright  wp-image-15428" title="Chairman's Corner" src="http://rabidrepublicanblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Chairmans-Corner3-300x193.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="154" /></a>MassGOP Leadership<br />
 <em><span style="color: #993300;">S-I-L-E-N-T</span></em> on Obama’s SOTU</h4>
<p><span style="color: #993300;"><em><strong>Shhhh!</strong></em></span> We wouldn&#8217;t want to alienate any of our neighborhood Democrats. So if the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>PotUS</strong></span> delivers a hour-long campaign speech &#8211; full of bluster, lies, and threats, &#8211; why haven’t we heard rebuttal and indignation from our ‘<span style="color: #993300;"><strong>Republican Leadership</strong></span>’? <strong>They’ve had two days!?!</strong></p>
<p>But ‘NEW LEADERSHIP’ in the person of <span style="color: #993300;"><strong>Romney-guy Bob Maginn</strong></span> hasn’t brought the RiNOs out from under their mushrooms and rocks. They’re still keeping a low profile&#8230;<span id="more-15411"></span></p>
<p>If you didn’t hear the speech yourself [<em>we’re all getting a little deaf to him</em>] &#8211; here is the short version courtesy of <strong>Mark Alexander</strong> at <a href="http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2012/01/26/obamas-state-of-disunion/">The Patriot Post</a>.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The short version: &#8220;I went &#8230; I know &#8230; My &#8230; My &#8230; I took office &#8230; I&#8217;m president &#8230; I will work &#8230; I intend &#8230; I will oppose &#8230; I want &#8230; I took office &#8230; I refused &#8230; me &#8230; my &#8230; my &#8230; me &#8230; I will sign &#8230; I set &#8230; I will go &#8230; I will not &#8230; I promise &#8230; I hear &#8230; I want &#8230; me &#8230; My &#8230; I want &#8230; I am &#8230; I spoke &#8230; me &#8230; I believe &#8230; my &#8230; I took office &#8230; me &#8230; I will sign &#8230; my &#8230; my &#8230; my &#8230; I will not &#8230; I will not walk &#8230; I will not cede &#8230; I will &#8230; I&#8217;m directing &#8230; my &#8230; I will sign &#8230; I&#8217;ve &#8230; my &#8230; my &#8230; I&#8217;ve ordered &#8230; I guess &#8230; I will not &#8230; I will &#8230; I will not &#8230; I will &#8230; my &#8230; I told &#8230; my presidency &#8230;me &#8230; my &#8230; I get &#8230; I don&#8217;t &#8230; I recognize &#8230; I bet &#8230; I&#8217;ve &#8230; me &#8230; I will &#8230; I ask &#8230; I&#8217;ve &#8230; me &#8230; I believe &#8230; my &#8230; my &#8230; I can &#8230; I have &#8230; I will take &#8230; I mean &#8230; I intend &#8230; I&#8217;ve &#8230; I&#8217;ve &#8230; I&#8217;ve &#8230; I&#8217;m a Democrat me &#8230; I believe &#8230; I began &#8230; my &#8230; I sat &#8230; me for president &#8230; me &#8230; I look &#8230; I&#8217;m (<span style="color: #3366ff;"><strong>Applause</strong></span>.)&#8221;</p>
<p>Those <strong>chirping sounds</strong> you hear coming from 85 Merrimac Street are the <span style="color: #993300;"><strong>Romney Crickets &#8211; <em>holding their breath</em></strong></span> until after the Florida Primary.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">And with both Newt and Santorun picking up speed &#8211; they may have to hold them well past Super Tuesday.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: center;">Their spiffy new website<br />
still <span style="color: #993300;"><em><strong>fails to list contact information</strong></em></span><br />
for the 80 State Committee Critters<br />
- <strong>EACH up for re-election in just 39 days</strong>.</h4>
<h4 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://massgop.com/about/state-committee/"><img class="wp-image-15413 alignnone" title="Committee page" src="http://rabidrepublicanblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Committee-page.jpg" alt="" width="513" height="449" /></a></h4>
<p>Why don’t they list phone numbers and e-mail addresses?</p>
<h4><span style="color: #993300;">  BECAUSE they DON’T WANT you BOTHERING THEM!</span></h4>
<p><strong>They hold PUBLIC office, <span style="color: #993300;">but want to remain PRIVATE!?!?</span></strong></p>
<p>Many of these ‘elite dinosaurs’ see themselves as ‘the brain trust of the party’.</p>
<p>They want to go to the quarterly meetings, mingle, drink, and feel important.  Actual party work out on the streets in the hustings would be beneath them. Might soil their expensive shoes.</p>
<h4>They’re the ‘1%’ of the 11%,…and they’ll <em>let you know it</em>.</h4>
<p><span style="color: #993300;"><strong>51 of them voted for Maginn</strong></span>. They’re in it for themselves. Please vote them OUT on March 6<sup>th</sup>!</p>
<p>   /s/  Iron Mike<br />
   Old Soldier, &#8211; Still Good for Parts!</p>
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		<title>Obama Bullies Governor Jan Brewer</title>
		<link>http://rabidrepublicanblog.com/2012/01/25/obama-bullies-governor-jan-brewer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ironmike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Governor Jan Brewer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This pompous pretender knows no other way. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This pompous pretender knows no other way.<br />
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		<title>Newt’s IRS Exoneration &#8211; 1999</title>
		<link>http://rabidrepublicanblog.com/2012/01/25/newts-irs-exoneration-1999/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ironmike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[1999]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax fraud]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The short and sweet story [by CNN!] of a vindictive Democrat attempt to bury Newt. In 1999 nobody cared anymore. Today they do! h/t Agent Prim!  Note Colorado Rep Pat Schroeder standing behind John Lewis.  She was a &#8216;Founding MoonBat&#8217;! Let&#8217;s see if Romney backs off his bombast now&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The short and sweet story [by CNN!] of a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>vindictive Democrat attempt</strong></span> to bury Newt. In 1999 nobody cared anymore. Today they do!<br />
<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qMpBBRUCMd8?rel=0" frameborder="0" width="500" height="375"></iframe><br />
<span style="color: #666699;">h/t Agent Prim!</span>  Note Colorado Rep <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Pat Schroeder</strong></span> standing behind <strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">John Lewis</span></strong>.  She was a &#8216;Founding MoonBat&#8217;!</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s see if Romney backs off his bombast now&#8230;</p>
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		<title>1000 Days Without A Budget</title>
		<link>http://rabidrepublicanblog.com/2012/01/23/1000-days-without-a-budget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ironmike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2012 State of the Union Address]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember this as you watch our Liar-in-Chief deliver the SOTU Address Tuesday night.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember this as you watch our <strong>Liar-in-Chief </strong>deliver the <strong>SOTU Address</strong> Tuesday night.<br />
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		<title>Russian YAK-130s To Kill Syrians</title>
		<link>http://rabidrepublicanblog.com/2012/01/23/russian-yak-130s-to-kill-syrians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ironmike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bashar Assad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syrian uprising]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For what purpose would Russia be selling 36 YAK-130 combat trainer aircraft &#8211; other than to kill Syrian civilians? For a FULL YEAR the entire world has watched the uprising in Syria &#8211; and President Bashar Assad’s murderous reprisals &#8211; pretty much in silence. Nobody has been more muted than our very own Hussein Obama. Quick [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For <em><strong>what purpose</strong></em> would Russia be selling <strong>36 YAK-130</strong> combat trainer aircraft &#8211; <em><strong>other</strong></em> than to kill Syrian civilians?<br />
<img class="alignnone  wp-image-15353" title="Syrian Targets Russian Solution" src="http://rabidrepublicanblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Syrian-Targets-Russian-Solution.jpg" alt="" width="485" height="165" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">For a FULL YEAR the entire world has watched the uprising in Syria &#8211; and President Bashar Assad’s murderous reprisals &#8211; pretty much in silence.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Nobody has been more muted than our very own Hussein Obama</strong></span>.</p>
<p>Quick to help a <strong>cash customer</strong> &#8211; Russia will sell Syria these small, slow, heavily armed jets &#8211; ideal for bombing crowds of unhappy civilians in the streets &#8211; or in their homes. <strong>$550 Million</strong> to Russia &#8211; Death to Syrians!? It’s not ‘<em><strong>personal</strong></em>’ &#8211; it’s just <strong><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/defiance-russia-to-reportedly-deliver-combat-jets-to-syria/">business</a></strong>.</p>
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		<title>Thinking Back &#8211; MLK Jr</title>
		<link>http://rabidrepublicanblog.com/2012/01/15/thinking-back-mlk-jr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ironmike</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was still a young man &#8211; and a young soldier &#8211; when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. The fires that tore through our cities and our souls in the weeks that followed are still vivid memories. So I thought a gentler reminder and historical image might be nice.</p>
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<p>h/t: DP &#8211; my First State Culture Vulture!<span id="more-15269"></span></p>
<p>In my early 20s I had mixed feelings about Doctor King. Like the TEA Parties today &#8211; he was plagued with rumors and fantasies about his real goals. I didn’t yet appreciate the magnitude of the problems he was dealing with.</p>
<p>Then came August 1965 &#8211; and Watts. Awakening for me &#8211; and for much of America, &#8211; was a painful process.</p>
<p>And then came April 4<sup><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup> 1968 &#8211; so soon after the T<span style="font-family: Arial;">ê</span>t Offensive. Our cities erupted into flames and gunfire, &#8211; and hatred.</p>
<p>In a frenzy of wrong-headed over-reaction, politicians of all stripes tried to buy peace &#8211; using federal dollars - in an endless array of programs &#8211; which only entrenched poor Blacks in soul-numbing poverty.</p>
<p>If Martin could walk and talk with us today, he would be quite pleased that a Black man was Governor of Massachusetts, and another was sitting as President of our country.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: center;">But I’m pretty sure he’d be <span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>bloody rip-shit</em></span><br />
at what <strong><em><span style="color: #ff0000;">both</span></em></strong> were doing by way of governing.</h4>
<p>He’s be appalled that 44 years later gangs are the most powerful influence in the Black inner cities,  and that ‘government’ had managed to make lives worse by systematically breaking down the family - and turning a blind eye to the destructive forces of drugs, government welfare, and union-run school systems.</p>
<p>Today, doctor King might be found standing in the schoolhouse door &#8211; with an ax handle &#8211; <strong>to keep the socialists out!</strong></p>
<p>It’s not all bad Doctor King &#8211; we have <strong>Tim Scott</strong> and <strong>Allen West</strong>!</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">/s/ Iron Mike<br />
Old Soldier, &#8211; Still Good for Parts!</p>
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