bobbyw24
04-13-2010, 04:42 AM
Grover Norquist, president, Americans for Tax Reform
We have been here before.
Around 1980, Lincoln Republicans (Northern establishment Protestants) worried about the influx of religious conservatives: conservative Roman Catholics and Orthodox Jews from northern cities and the Southern Baptists and other evangelicals from the South and rural areas.
In 1989, there was a new worry when Pat Robertson’s campaign activists joined the party structures after his 1988 primary campaign.
In 2008, the Ron Paul activists showed up and stayed in Republican Party politics. More worries.
And now the tea party activists who were not active two years ago but became active in reaction to the Obama/Reid/Pelosi explosion of federal spending are swelling the ranks of the conservative movement and promising/threatening to vote Republican.
I want more such problems in the future.
James J. Zogby, founder and president, Arab American Institute
Straw polls, in general, but especially at this point in time, aren’t worth straw. We know that and yet persist in giving them ink.
Take heart, Gary Johnson! Your day may yet come.
David Boaz, executive vice president, Cato Institute
Three weeks ago, at a Cato Institute conference, Grover Norquist asked three Republican congressmen how many of their colleagues now think the Iraq war was a mistake. The answer: “almost all of us.” That’s an issue the GOP establishment doesn’t want an open debate on.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35703.html#ixzz0kyZ4G8B8
We have been here before.
Around 1980, Lincoln Republicans (Northern establishment Protestants) worried about the influx of religious conservatives: conservative Roman Catholics and Orthodox Jews from northern cities and the Southern Baptists and other evangelicals from the South and rural areas.
In 1989, there was a new worry when Pat Robertson’s campaign activists joined the party structures after his 1988 primary campaign.
In 2008, the Ron Paul activists showed up and stayed in Republican Party politics. More worries.
And now the tea party activists who were not active two years ago but became active in reaction to the Obama/Reid/Pelosi explosion of federal spending are swelling the ranks of the conservative movement and promising/threatening to vote Republican.
I want more such problems in the future.
James J. Zogby, founder and president, Arab American Institute
Straw polls, in general, but especially at this point in time, aren’t worth straw. We know that and yet persist in giving them ink.
Take heart, Gary Johnson! Your day may yet come.
David Boaz, executive vice president, Cato Institute
Three weeks ago, at a Cato Institute conference, Grover Norquist asked three Republican congressmen how many of their colleagues now think the Iraq war was a mistake. The answer: “almost all of us.” That’s an issue the GOP establishment doesn’t want an open debate on.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35703.html#ixzz0kyZ4G8B8