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Article on today's Washington Post describes how shaken Establishment GOP was by election losses last week. They plan to launch a " counter-insurgency" against their own right flank, by threatening to ostracize and out-spend groups that fund Tea Party candidates:
The GOP is fed up with losing national elections because their candidates are too extreme. The GOP Civil War has begun. It's Rove and Norquist vs DeMint and Limbaugh. Who will win?
It is obvious that Lindsey Graham was right in his pronouncement that we aren't creating enough angry white men to keep the republican party in business. They need a candidate who is moderate, but also has to appeal to youth, women, and minorities as well as middle-class America. We in the middle class feel like our wishes are subordinate to those of the very wealthy who fund the candidate's election bids.
Until such time that the perception can be changed that the republicans don't give a tinker's damn about "you people" and that legislation is available only to the highest bidder, all they are going to be able to do after national elections is sit on the sidelines and whine about "taking our country back".
Good luck, guys. I'll be the first to admit that we need ideas from both camps to make rational decisions, even though I am a tree-hugging Liberal. A one-party government will do this country in, regardless of which one.
If America goes down the tubes, it will be quite possible to make a case that the republicans contributed heavily to the fall due to their shotgun vision and bull-headedness. Your choice as to how history sees you.
Article on today's Washington Post describes how shaken Establishment GOP was by election losses last week. They plan to launch a " counter-insurgency" against their own right flank, by threatening to ostracize and out-spend groups that fund Tea Party candidates:
The GOP is fed up with losing national elections because their candidates are too extreme. The GOP Civil War has begun. It's Rove and Norquist vs DeMint and Limbaugh. Who will win?
Rove and the RNC will win. They simply need to pick off more turkeys. Alabama was the first one last Tuesday. They need CC to refuse to aid turkey's, as he did with Va's GOP man, Cucci Coo, last week.
Starve the wing nuts of funding and mainstream recognition, they will get killed, and volla, the party can leave the POTUS & Senate wilderness again.
Basically the tea party lie the left of the mid 60's has become to important a base to ignore.The main effect of tea party which is a pretty new movement has been at local and state house levels. statehouses have really change hands the last two election cycles.
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