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GAME CHANGE: Will the Republicans Now Play Ball?

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Obviously, there are many others who belong on that turd pile, particularly the pundits referenced earlier, along with other influential hard-right bottom-feeding rabble-rousers -- Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity -- who promulgate the irritant rhetorical tone of the conservative movement but face no political consequences when that rhetoric causes problems for the GOP.    If it wants to survive, the party needs to develop a smooth but swift self-departation process for pundits like Limbaugh and company.

 

But mainly it's the Tea Party which needs to be put in "time-out" as it was for the most part during the GOP convention.   Now that finger-pointing time has arrived, it's the Tea Party and its irrational fiscal agenda, batty cultural outlook, and militia-like view of government which bled so deeply into both Romney's campaign strategy and political persona -- that needs to be held in account.

 

The demographic clock's ticking. It's crucial that the GOP establishment "gets" it since it's obvious that the electorate has it figured out.   On election day Americans rejected 12 of 16 Tea Party candidates nationwide including Richard Mourdock (aka the "rape guy ") and Todd Akin (aka the "legitimate rape guy") along with Florida's Alan West and Illinois' Joe Walsh, a couple first-term incumbents who embody the sort of hard-right extremism that drives mainstream Republicans straight into the "independent" column.

 

A conservative dilemma?

 

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Anthony Barnes, of Boston, Massachusetts, is a left-handed leftist. "When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the (more...)
 

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