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| Finnish TEA Party equivalent kicks butt in election |
| 2011-04-18 |
| (AyPee) With 99 percent of votes counted, the biggest vote-winner in Finland's parliamentary elections was the conservative National Coalition Party, part of the current center-right government and a strong advocate for European integration. But with 43 seats it had only one more than the opposition Social Democrats, while the nationalist True Finns gained 33 seats for 39 in the 200-member Parliament, the official preliminary results showed. These folks sound a lot like the TEA Party. Trunks should take note. I doubt the TP would ever run a ticket, but Trump could be a third party spoiler. At any rate, others are fed up with their betters. The anti-immigration and staunchly euroskeptic True Finns oppose bailouts for Portugal and other cash-strapped European countries. |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #13 #4 So what's going to happen to future European bailouts? Posted by tipper Same thing that's happending to NATO. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-04-18 19:35 |
| #12 So what's going to happen to future European bailouts? I think they're finnish. Ba-Da-Bump!! (Come on, that was worth at least a rim-shot.) |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2011-04-18 19:31 |
| #11 Trump: I screwed Gadhafi "I rented him a piece of land. He paid me more for one night than the land was worth for two years, and then I didn't let him use the land," Trump boasted. "That's what we should be doing. I don't want to use the word 'screwed', but I screwed him." Bravo. A bigger asshole than the one we've got is just what we need. And better yet, a guy who'll be an asshole not to us, but on our behalf. I pray he will not pull another Perot, but watching The Donald |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2011-04-18 13:16 |
| #10 Don't forget the MSM pushed McCain until he got a lock on the nomination - then things changed drastically. I would be baised against anyone the MSM is pushing - just for that reason. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-04-18 12:52 |
| #9 I personally don't support Trump. He's P T Barnum, who was also a business man. My problem is that Trump is getting the air time because of the abject failure of the 'old guard'. If the establishment just chuckles this off and not recognize its a very serious wake up call, then the non-socialist political elements of America had better clean house in the Trunk party quickly this year. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-04-18 12:44 |
| #8 I dislike the RINO's as much as anyone, but please, P2K, voting for someone who just a year ago everyone knew was a democrat isn't the answer. If Trump really were the answer the mainstream press wouldn't be pushing him so hard. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-04-18 10:01 |
| #7 Thing if the Republican establishment puts up a RINO or Donk Lite, why even bother going to the polls? It's just a game between the Inner Party and Outer Party to us prols. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-04-18 09:57 |
| #6 Before he decided on this stunt political run, Trump didn't even qualify as a RINO because he was an activist democrat. If YOU can't find a candidate who didn't give money to Harry Reid in the last two years, well, ask not whom the RINO bell tolls for, it tolls for thee. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-04-18 09:43 |
| #5 Yup, it's obvious to me that we need to dump all the RINO's, and go back to the glory days of the Perot presidency. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-04-18 09:39 |
| #4 So what's going to happen to future European bailouts? I think they're finnish. |
| Posted by: tipper 2011-04-18 01:22 |
| #3 ION NOT-FINLAND, WAFF > ANARCHY DESCENDS [finally] ON HELLAS [Greece] | FURIOUS GREEKS PRESS FOR COUNTRY TO DEFAULT ON DEBT, to achieve national debt restructuring which in turn will help provide proactive econ relief for mainstream Greeks suffering from curr Govt-imposed National Austerity measures. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-04-18 01:15 |
| #2 ...but Trump could be a third party spoiler Oh, the bogyman card. The old guard Trunks offer nothing but the same old, same old. Their position is to demonize anyone who doesn't fit the RINO model. We've seen it in Florida and Alaska [talk to me about WHO split the vote there]. Now nationally. The only reason the vote will be split will be by the entrenched refusing to provide real leadership of which they are sadly deficient in. Don't want Trump then you damn well better provide a real alternative rather than something just 'Lite'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-04-18 00:51 |
| #1 "These folks" have nothing in common with the Tea Party. "These folks" are national welfare statist promoting "social justice." |
| Posted by: Tyranysaurus Ebbinetch8841 2011-04-18 00:24 |