Posted on 09/12/2014 5:22:06 AM PDT by cotton1706
The last decade or so, Republican conservatives have faced a bitter uphill battle for control of Washington DC. They’ve stumbled over their own ideological excesses, with candidates dragging issues such as ‘legitimate’ rape, birth control and the role of women in the workplace into the limelight. One tea party-favored candidate found herself struggling to assure voters that she wasn’t “a witch.”
This political cycle, a lot of far-right candidates didn’t even make it to November. They were toppled by establishment Republicans, who have shown themselves to be feistier, better prepared and more flexible than in 2010 and 2012. Candidates who once quailed under the RINO label have been fighting back, building big war chests, tacking to the right themselves while working effectively to de-fang conservative and libertarian opponents. There’s even talk of another Mitt Romney run in 2016.
But perhaps the most dramatic feature of this anti-conservative backlash has been the number of centrist Republicans who have actually abandoned their party altogether, running as independents or Democrats. Often, but not always, they’ve made the jump because they’ve faced un-winnable primary battles against right-wing challengers.
What’s the matter with Kansas?
Moderate andidates such as Greg Orman, who is running as an independent in Kansas, could keep the GOP from winning control of the Senate in November. Photo: Greg Orman for Senate campaign. Moderate candidates such as Greg Orman, who is running as an independent in Kansas, could keep the GOP from winning control of the Senate in November. Photo: Greg Orman for Senate campaign.
The latest in this trend is Greg Orman, a candidate in Kansas who has spent time as a moderate Republican and a moderate Democrat.
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But the moderate republicans, ya see, they can do what they like. When they don't support conservatives, when they don't "vote for the 'R'", there is raucus applause!
that whole crew can KMA..
I will NOT be taken for granted.
The GOP is dead. It whigged out.
CHEATERS
Not one dime’s worth of difference. Moderate GOP are Liberal DemocRats.
“Not one dime’s worth of difference.”
True, they both sat there and said/did nothing knowing
that the Obama was using the IRS against the TEA party.
John Cornyn was one of them.
The “moderates” will be welcomed by the socialist party ?What ever happened to those “blue dogs” ?
This is from the NPR blogosphere .
No. They are registered Republicans that are liberal.
Calling them Dems is a form of denial that allows the GOP-E to avoid the fact their party is full of liberals.
Until that is accepted, there is no way the republicans can get rid of the liberals within their party.
The GOP owns those liberals.
/johnny
I could tell by the overwhelming stench emanating from the blogpost.
REMEMBER MISSISSIPPI!!!
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