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Conservatives roar; Republicans tremble - Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen - POLITICO.com
Many top Republicans are growing worried that the party’s chances for reversing its electoral routs of 2006 and 2008 are being wounded by the flamboyant rhetoric and angry tone of conservative activists and media personalities, according to interviews with GOP officials and operatives.
Congressional leaders talk in private of being boxed in by commentators such as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh — figures who are wildly popular with the conservative base but wildly controversial among other parts of the electorate, and who have proven records of making life miserable for senators and House members critical of their views or influence.
Some of the leading 2012 candidates are described by operatives as grappling with the same tension. The challenge is to tap into the richest source of energy in the party — the disgust of grass-roots conservative activists with President Barack Obama and their hunger for a full-throated attack on his agenda — without coming off to the broader public as cranky and extreme.
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The Republicans are trembling because the conseratives are roaring to the RightWing base.
They feel that they are now painted into a corner by the likes of Limbaugh and Beck. Funny how they will support each other up to a certain point. That point seems to lie in the area of their nature of one having the need to blame SOMEBODY for their failures.
Health Care is on the verge of passing and apparently with the public option.
This would be considered within the conservative movement to be a total failure. They have to blame somebody and all of their attacks on this administration have fallen on deaf ears. There only choice is to start blaming people on their own side of the aisle. Blaming is their nature.
Is this the beginning of the internal combustion of the Republican party?
Pull up some chairs folks and enjoy the laughs...there will be many laughs to come.
Many top Republicans are growing worried that the party’s chances for reversing its electoral routs of 2006 and 2008 are being wounded by the flamboyant rhetoric and angry tone of conservative activists and media personalities, according to interviews with GOP officials and operatives.
Congressional leaders talk in private of being boxed in by commentators such as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh — figures who are wildly popular with the conservative base but wildly controversial among other parts of the electorate, and who have proven records of making life miserable for senators and House members critical of their views or influence.
Some of the leading 2012 candidates are described by operatives as grappling with the same tension. The challenge is to tap into the richest source of energy in the party — the disgust of grass-roots conservative activists with President Barack Obama and their hunger for a full-throated attack on his agenda — without coming off to the broader public as cranky and extreme.
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The Republicans are trembling because the conseratives are roaring to the RightWing base.
They feel that they are now painted into a corner by the likes of Limbaugh and Beck. Funny how they will support each other up to a certain point. That point seems to lie in the area of their nature of one having the need to blame SOMEBODY for their failures.
Health Care is on the verge of passing and apparently with the public option.
This would be considered within the conservative movement to be a total failure. They have to blame somebody and all of their attacks on this administration have fallen on deaf ears. There only choice is to start blaming people on their own side of the aisle. Blaming is their nature.
Is this the beginning of the internal combustion of the Republican party?
Pull up some chairs folks and enjoy the laughs...there will be many laughs to come.