Republicans: Blinded by Self-Righteousness
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/opinion/blow-republicans-blinded-by-self-righteousness.html?_r=0
This is the perpetual Republican Party conundrum: moderate, or go harder right. And many still seem to believe that going harder right is the best way to go. They have learned nothing. They can see no other way. They are so convinced that their way is the right way, but it’s just misunderstood, not clearly explained, not persuasively advocated.
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It is in this environment that 15 Kentucky Tea Party groups released a letter last week blasting two national Tea Party groups for endorsing Senator Mitch McConnell, complaining of McConnell’s “Progressive Liberal voting record” and his “willingness to roll over and cede power to President Obama and the Liberals in Washington.”
In what twisted, right-is-left, up-is-down world do these people live?
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Rush Limbaugh, during an hourlong interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren this week, went even further, saying: “The Republican leadership isn’t conservative. They’re not particularly crazy about conservatives.” And lamenting what he viewed as too much compromise by Republicans, he continued: “So much of it on the surface, intellectually, doesn’t make any sense. There has to be a reason. These Republicans are not stupid. They have to know that agreeing with the Democrats on issue after issue after issue is going to equal Democrat victory after victory after victory after victory. So why are they doing it?”
Apparently the "true believers" on the right think the Republicans are just too damned liberal and too ready to give Obama whatever he wants. Yeah, that's it.
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