Posted on 08/05/2011 7:20:45 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Polls indicating that the Republican Party is moving further to the right are leaving a large faction of moderate Republicans feeling disenchanted with the party’s conservative drift, reports The Boston Globe.
In 2010, some of the GOP’s most outspoken leaders helped propel Republican candidates into power in the House. The tea party movement was influential in securing this takeover.
But Gallup poll findings to be released Friday indicate that the GOP’s conservative shift is isolating its moderate wing, the Globe reported. Self-described moderates made up almost one-third of the Republican Party just 10 years ago. Now, that fraction has dropped to less than one-fourth, according to the Globe.
Meanwhile, those identifying with the Republican Party are more conservative than ever. The percentage of Republicans who label themselves conservative has risen 10 points since 2002, from 62 to 72 percent.
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'Moderate' Republicans tend to be fiscal conservatives, but social liberals. They're embarrassed by those silly religious nuts who are pro-life and anti-homosexual marriage; how gauche!
They don’t like it they can change parties. They vote left anyway.
The "murder-its" The baby-killer wing of the Republican Party.
One more election like the last and we will have control and we can neutralise the RINO’s. And deal with the Commie Bastards.
With Gods help, we will get-er done.
Oh, I'm sure you could scare up a few at your local golf course if you really wanted to meet some.
Though polls indicate Republican voters would support a combination of spending cuts and tax increases...
I wonder how they framed the question so they could write that statement? What percentage of "Repubs" "would support" tax increases? What "polls"? There's more than one poll that "indicate" this, Newsmax? Let's see those "polls", please!
If a Boston Globe Presstitute like Caroline Rawls claims it, must it be true?
Fort Belvoir?
Tough toenails, RINOs. Time for you to go.
You're just as responsible for the mess we're in as the Democrats are.
good. imo, this is a major goal of the tea party. convert them to true conservatives or drive the “moderate” rino squish elements out of the R party.
that will hamstring the rino republican collective that is stopping us from taking over the party, making way for us independent conservatives to finally come in from the cold and unite with republican conservatives in a drive to restore the republic.
until then. we fight on from the outside. not a vote. not a dime to a rino.
Agi-propt!
"Moderate" Republicans are Progressives (see TR who believed every American was entitled to health insurance), and Progressives are way left of "Moderates".
TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!
*inhales*
TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!
Moderate and extreme. God I loath the press.
I guess it’s ok that Moderates are upset that Conservatives are swinging to the right, I have been disenchanted with the RINO Moderates for a long time.
They need to go over and register Democrat if they are going to vote Democrat.
Barry Goldwater. 1964
It's time, I think. Maybe long past it, but it's time.
CommieCrats and Socialicans vs the Tea Party.
Pray for America
When will these people start accepting the fact that they have bleed the nation to near death and that we are on a non-sustainable path?
Professional pols from both parties, the leftist media and the idiots who vote for people like Obama, Pelosi, Reid, McCain, etc. want to keep the gravy train going, even if it destroys the nation, which it will.
The only ‘moderate’ Republicans are elected officials. Moderate Republicans are all chiefs, no indians.
“It’s a jump to the left, then a step to the right”...
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