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Plouffe: Limbaugh, Beck and Palin are a problem for GOP
Politico ^ | September 05, 2010 | Meredith Shiner

Posted on 09/06/2010 4:33:30 PM PDT by dr_who

President Barack Obama's political adviser, David Plouffe, on Sunday called Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin the leaders of the Republican Party — and also a "problem" for the GOP in this fall's elections and beyond.

Plouffe emphasized the "intolerance" and "extremism" of the tea party and of the right wing of the Republican Party as both a short-term and a long-term electoral problem for the moderate GOP, citing their attacks even on conservative senators such as Tom Coburn of Oklahoma as an example of how narrowly they have tailored their messaging and base.

"Right now — and this is a problem for them — I do think Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, they are the leaders of the party," Plouffe said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "There is an intolerance in that party and an extremism that I think is where the real energy is, and so I think you'll see in '11 and '12 with that presidential primary; those are going to be the people who come out to vote."

Tea-party-backed candidates — from Sharron Angle in Nevada to Rand Paul in Kentucky and, most recently, Joe Miller in Alaska — have enjoyed high levels of success in primary battles, but Plouffe and the Democrats are banking on the hope that these candidates will alienate independents and more moderate Republicans.

With Limbaugh, Beck and Palin emerging as the leaders of the GOP, and edging out more mainstream Republicans, Plouffe said Democrats could make gains in specific races across the country.

"That's going to be a problem" for them, Plouffe said.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: davidplouffe; plouffe; rushbeck
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To: dr_who

It’s a problem we love having.


61 posted on 09/06/2010 6:12:04 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: libh8er

This plouffe fellow is yet another anti-American, self-loather that surrounds nobama. Just why anyone would not ridicule ANYTHING he says is beyond me. To top it off he is a weird looking specimen. I bet he loves that new diversion: “in the dark dating”.


62 posted on 09/06/2010 6:15:18 PM PDT by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: dr_who

Straight out of “Rules for Radicals”. These guys are SO predictable it;s barely amusing any longer. It’s actuall becoming boring.


63 posted on 09/06/2010 6:22:28 PM PDT by hotshu (Keep the Faith, that's all 0bama and his fellow traitors can't steal from us.e)
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To: Hoosier-Daddy
His boss, O-Hole, stole his chin and added it to his own, so he could stick it out further.
64 posted on 09/06/2010 6:28:15 PM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: dr_who

another way to put it would be, “the GOP is a problem for the GOP”... until the old guard gets turned out, i.e., McLaim, they will continue to have problems.


65 posted on 09/06/2010 6:28:59 PM PDT by dps.inspect (uttox)
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To: dr_who

another way to put it would be, “the GOP is a problem for the GOP”... until the old guard gets turned out, i.e., McLaim, they will continue to have problems.


66 posted on 09/06/2010 6:29:06 PM PDT by dps.inspect (uttox)
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To: dr_who
"That's going to be a problem" for them, Plouffe said.

Only in his wildest dreams, because saying it's so don't make it so, even if the leftest media beats this on their loudest drums on an hourly basis, which I doubt they'll do, because they know they'd be wasting their time.

67 posted on 09/06/2010 6:32:55 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from the Right Stuff!)
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To: Seruzawa

Why are the Democrats so, and I mean, so concerned about the status and fate of the Republican Party? Why do they friggin’ care?


68 posted on 09/06/2010 6:41:33 PM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Are they insane, stupid or just evil?)
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To: Seruzawa
This guy is scared to death of the three.

He really hates Rush.....
He's killing them w/ humor (sterling insight) & the facts....
the (Ruling Class) Elitists really hate to be laughed at &/ ridiculed.


69 posted on 09/06/2010 6:46:52 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Imam Zer0: DeathCARE, Is my only Plan...So just die (quicky), please & save $$$$ :^)
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To: dr_who
the "intolerance" and "extremism" of the tea party and of the right wing of the Republican Party

Rejection of libtard social justice is not "intolerance", and "extremism", and racism. It is true justice, non violation of natural rights in thought and action, and rational rejection of postmodernism.

70 posted on 09/06/2010 7:08:01 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: dr_who

Hey, dumas it’s the American people you have to worry about, not some radio personalities. WAKE UP!


71 posted on 09/06/2010 7:12:07 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS= Obama's Mosque, taxes, painful death. Is this what you want?)
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To: r9etb

They came right out of the shoot attacking Limbaugh; calling him the head of the GOP, back when Obama had just taken over in 2009.

It didn’t work then, it won’t work now, and it won’t work in 2012.

Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton. (Ben Franklin?)


72 posted on 09/06/2010 7:14:01 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: b4its2late

Don’t know if its a guy/girl/transexual, but it is a JournOlista.

In fact, most of Politico were. Where they go now to plot and scheme we don’t know, but sound money says they’re still hard at it.


73 posted on 09/06/2010 7:14:43 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: dr_who

I am certain the Plouffe is concerned for the welfare of the GOP/s?


74 posted on 09/06/2010 7:24:50 PM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: dr_who

What GOP is he talking about? Girlish, Obama-worshipping Poofters?


75 posted on 09/06/2010 7:38:43 PM PDT by Dionysius (Jingoism is no vice in these troubled times.)
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To: ALPAPilot
David Plouffe is a liar. Beck, Limbaugh, and Palin are neither intolerant nor extreme; especially not intolerant.

You say that as if it will matter....

76 posted on 09/06/2010 7:40:22 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: Alas Babylon!

We’ll see.


77 posted on 09/06/2010 7:44:21 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb
Consider: far more people do not listen to Beck or Limbaugh, than do listen to them. Most people don't pay direct attention to Sarah Palin.

Yes, but the ones that DO listen to Rush, Sarah, and Beck are probably more likely to VOTE than the ones who don't.

Don't drink Mr. Plouffets kool aid too quickly there. You could be confused as one of the dem bots.
78 posted on 09/06/2010 10:39:22 PM PDT by JSteff ((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))
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To: Winstons Julia

Yeah, he sort of looks like Charlie’s brother Alan on “Two and 1/2 men”. That’s it, a nasty Alan girlie man.


79 posted on 09/06/2010 10:43:09 PM PDT by JSteff ((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))
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To: JSteff

If I am not mistaken Jon Cryer is a Republican.

I am a chick who felt that Ducky was done wrong in Pretty in Pink.


80 posted on 09/06/2010 10:46:36 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (The liberal mantra: Never enough.)
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