nydailynews.com - 27 days ago
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Right wing purists egged on by Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin fought to capture an upstate House seat Monday and electrify their drive to purge moderates from the Republican Party. With Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman jumping to the lead in a new poll, the hard-core right smelled a ...
nytimes.com - 26 days ago
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nytimes.com —
WASHINGTON I had a four-hour dinner once with
Rush Limbaugh at the “21” Club in Manhattan, back...
in the days when I was still writing profiles as a “reporterette,” to use a Limbaugh coinage. He was charming, in a shy, awkward, lonely-guy way. Not a man ...
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Who Are You Calling a Narcissist, Rush?
huffingtonpost.com - 29 days ago
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huffingtonpost.com —
The Obama White House has, for the past
few weeks, waged an informal war on Fox News,...
lashing out against the network for its conservative bias and blacklisting it from interviews with high-ranking administration officials. So what type of ...
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Fox Gives Rush Limbaugh 30 Minutes To Tee Off On Obama
thedailybeast.com - 25 days ago
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thedailybeast.com —
A sect of hard-right Republicans is celebrating their
loss in a New York House race-but that's just...
the beginning of a plan to purge moderates. Benjamin Sarlin speaks to the ringleader. Insurgent conservatives have declared all-out war on the...
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The Plot to Purge GOP Moderates
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Media Bias? What Media Bias?
JammieWearingFool —
See if you can spot the codewords in this DNC press release disguised as news . Right wing purists egged on by Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin fought to capture an upstate House seat Monday and electrify their drive to purge moderates from the Republican Party. With Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman jumping to the lead in a new poll, the hard-core right smelled a chance to remold the GOP in the image of raucous town hall protests and "tea party" rallies of the summer. This is supposed to be a straight news story, not an opinion column. Yet all the typical talking ...
Quote of the Day: On Moderates and the GOP
The Moderate Voice —
Our political quote of the day comes from conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh on moderates and the Republican party:
“Moderates by definition have no principles,”….He predicted that “RINOs” – a putdown acronym of “Republicans In Name Only” – “may become extinct.”
GOP: Clarity, Not Civil War
Riehl World View —
... But you wouldn't know that from the Daily News.
“What you’re going to see,” said Armey, “is moderates and conservatives across the country in primaries.”
Now look at the Daily News headline. Both can't be true, as they contradict one another right down to the use of the word moderate. Even an old war horse like Dick Armey knows there needs to be room for moderates within the GOP.
Limbaugh, Palin urge right wing to step up efforts to purge moderates from Republican Party
On top of not ...
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WTF Is It Now?!? —
... But the vile junkie had more to say: "Moderates by definition have no principles," Limbaugh spat on his hate-radio show, saying "RINOs" (Republicans In Name Only) "may become extinct." ...
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GOP begins to rally behind Hoffman
thehill.com 30 days ago — Hours after Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava bowed out of the NY-23 House race, top House GOPers are rallying together to support Doug Hoffman, her Conservative Party challenger. In a joint statement released Saturday afternoon, House Republican ...
White House: NY 23 Shows GOP Becoming More Extreme
themoderatevoice.com 29 days ago —
It’s clear the White House perceives news from New York about a Republican moderate in effect being forced out of a Congressional race by conservatives who felt she was not conservative enough as a sign that the Republican party is officially shifting further to the right — and ...
Boehner regrets backing Scozzafava
thehill.com 27 days ago — The top-ranking House Republican told reporters on Monday that he regrets having supported former GOP House candidate Dede Scozzafava. Scozzafava, the official Republican Party candidate in the special election in New York's 23rd district, dropped ...
So much for NRSC support, Charlie
blogs.tampabay.com 25 days ago —
From
ABC news blog :
With Republicans grappling with the fallout of an intra-party battle that
may have cost them a House seat, the head of the Senate Republican campaign
effort is making a pledge that may ease some of the anger being directed ...
Pence endorses Hoffman for 2010
thehill.com 24 days ago — The third-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives on Wednesday endorsed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman for the 2010 midterm elections. House Republican Conference chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.) offered his support to Hoffman, who ...
Is the Tea Party Gang Turning GOP into a Party of Hate?
politicsdaily.com 24 days ago — When John Boehner, the Republican leader of the House, appeared at the Tea Party rally at the Capitol on Thursday afternoon, it was a dramatic signal: the wing-nuts have taken over the GOP. Think I'm being harsh? The angry folks at the protest -- ...