moderate repubs to be driven from repub party - Moore said

http://www.alternet.org/election04/20522


The Soul Of An Elephant

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Referred to as RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) by many hard right conservatives, they are respected by the voters in their states, but despised by party leaders in Washington.

Out-organized by neo-conservative groups like the Christian Coalition, the Family Research Council, and the Club for Growth, moderates are no longer viewed as respected members of a philosophically broad-based party. They have, instead, become targets for a group of cannibalistic vigilantes bent on establishing ideological purity.

Drunk with power from their recent electoral victory, these ideologues make no pretense about their intentions. Stephen Moore, president of the Club for Growth, says his organization's goal is to punish moderate Republicans and make them an endangered species. “The problem with the moderates in Congress is that they basically water down the Republican message and what you get is something that infuriates the Republican base,” Moore says.

“They will learn to conform to our agenda or they will be driven from our party,” he says simply.
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so there you have it

Nothing like shooting yourself in the foot with a 50-round Drum Clip.

All you will be left with is those who bark at the moon.

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The hard right always destroys itself by purges seeking greater and greater party purity. It's happened every single time the hard right of any nation has seized power.

As more and more moderates are ousted, what they do is marginalize themselves more and more until they are overthrown, voted out, or simply die off and are left with their monuments to themselves desecrated then forgotten.

What the left has to guard against is always factionalism, something that generally prevents it from ever gaining power. The right is much better at grabbing power, but always manage to destroy themselves eventually.

In other words, this too shall pass. I know, I've had a kidney stone.

same thought and been waiting for them to shoot themselves in the foot as they always do but what always amazes me is how many times they get away with it. Perhaps that is why they fall so hard is they begin to believe they are invincible then they purge their own then BAM! down they go. Lets up it is soon.

the centrist-democrat bashing that goes on here, right?
Look, political hardliners are pretty much cut from the same cloth. We're good, they're evil, true, but if DU were in power we'd probably end up playing the same alienate-the-center game.