Bob Inglis says he can't identify with 'hard right'

[ccharles000]

U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis said Thursday he faces an anti-incumbent, “throw-the-bums-out” mood among voters similar to the one he rode to victory when he was first elected to Congress in 1992.

“Now I am the bum, so I've got to figure out how to help people understand that maybe your local bum isn't so bad after all,” Inglis told reporters and editors of The Greenville News .

The Greenville Republican, who faces four challengers in June's Republican primary election in the 4th Congressional District, said voters were already worried about the future before the recession and banking collapse struck.

The Chinese economy is on track to replace the U.S. economy as the world's largest, “and that's a blow to the American psyche,” Inglis said. “You put all that together, and you have a toxic stew for incumbents.”

Inglis also said there is a struggle within the Republican Party now that the coalition of social and economic conservatives and pro-life Democrats that Ronald Reagan built is “running on fumes.”

Inglis said he considers himself a part of the “religious right” and can't identify with a new group that has emerged within the party that he called the “hard right.”

“I'm concerned about abortion,” Inglis said. “It's very much a concern to me. The hard right really doesn't care about abortion. They just want you, government, out of their pocketbook, by golly.”
http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20091113/NEWS/911130319/1011/NEWS03/Inglis-says-he-can-t-identify-with-hard-right

[noiretextatique]

1. take your "concern" and shove, mister

you know where

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. "Concerned about abortion" is pretty hard right to me.

[AspenRose]

3. That's telling...when the "hard right" is even too much for him, a religious righter