Conservatives roar; GOP trembles

[derby378]

Source: Politico

Many top Republicans are growing worried that the party’s chances for reversing its electoral routs of 2006 and 2008 are being wounded by the flamboyant rhetoric and angry tone of conservative activists and media personalities, according to interviews with GOP officials and operatives.

Congressional leaders talk in private of being boxed in by commentators such as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh — figures who are wildly popular with the conservative base but wildly controversial among other parts of the electorate, and who have proven records of making life miserable for senators and House members critical of their views or influence.

Some of the leading 2012 candidates are described by operatives as grappling with the same tension. The challenge is to tap into the richest source of energy in the party — the disgust of grass-roots conservative activists with President Barack Obama and their hunger for a full-throated attack on his agenda — without coming off to the broader public as cranky and extreme.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091022/pl_politico/28589

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Good luck with that GOP. That horse is out of the barn.

[msongs]

2. good thing for these conservatives that only ONE dem has guts to challenge them in public nt

[nyc 4 Biden]

8. Believe it or not, I think years of not challenging these RW crazies...

...may had some small benefit after all. By letting these RW nutjobs go at it all these years without correcting and embarrassing them, they have just gotten more extreme.

I compare it to when someone lives in an apartment by themselves for too long. You just start doing weird things like cleaning naked and talking to your goldfish.

Now the conservative base is being exposed for what it is, delusional and hateful.

[UpInArms]

10. was that the voice of experience?

You just start doing weird things like cleaning naked and talking to your goldfish.

:evilgrin:

[nyc 4 Biden]

13. No I co-habitate, but act weird nonetheless. n/t

;)

[Winterblues]

14. cleaning naked and talking to your goldfish.

You say that as if it were a bad thing....:evilgrin:

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Because the irony is

it only took that "one" to make them cower in their boots and call the wahhhhmbulance! :rofl:

[WI_DEM]

3. You made a pact with the devil and now deal with it.

[leftynyc]

4. I'd hang beck, rush, hannity

and every other lunatic around the neck of every pub running. Make them either agree with them or disavow them. Put in on the record.

[yellowcanine]

5. Wanting the cake and eating it also........too bad knuckle heads.

As long as the Republicans allow Beck, Hannity and Limbaugh to carry water for them they will lose and deservedly so. Put Sarah Palin forward.....same result. I predict it will take another thrashing in 2012 before the Republicans realize this truth.

[stubtoe]

6. Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

ha ha

[Wizard777]

7. The GOP sending Child Prostitution Advocates to Acorn was a great idea.

[Beetwasher]

9. LOL!

:thumbsup:

[Arugula Latte]

12. The Southern Strategy finally bit them in the ass, and the Nutjob Strategy might also.

[coconut22]

15. Why are they upset for..

Beck and the rest are one and the same,Repubs or so called conservatives are one in the same.They are just angry that these nuts are just showing the world who they all really are..

[malaise]

16. You reap what you fugging sow

No tears here - in fact I'm popping champagne at their numbers - one in five admits to being a REthug - bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! :rofl: :rofl: