[twntaipan]

What chaps my hide in this entire affair is the false charge that "strong arm tactics" were used first by the pro-lifers among us. It was not Randall Terry or Gary Bauer or James Dobson who started the day Wednesday by saying there needed to be a litmus test.

It was Specter. He is the one using threats and intimidation. He is the one who has created the furor, the one who has sown to the wind. And he should be the one to reap the whirlwind, even if it is only to cause him to sweat.

If country-club Republicans believe they can win in 2006 or 2008 or beyond without the social conservatives, they got another think comin' (as my Texas born wife likes to say).

[TheDon]

"Strong arm tactics"? How about Roe v Wade? Legislation from the bench.

[Robert_Paulson2]

If country-club Republicans believe they can win in 2006 or 2008 or beyond without the social conservatives

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yes.
and the reverse is true as well.
at least for now.