“Tom Coburn is being polite and diplomatic, and showing a lot of class. He probably really does think Nancy Pelosi is nice, so I have no problem with his approach in trying to be friendly to the opposition so long as he sticks to his principles”
You may be right that he is showing class, in his own way. But he is showing class towards people who are bent on destroying everything that made this country great. That is not class. That is a failure to recognize a) the anger and sense of betrayal felt by hard working Americans; b) the political climate; and c) who these people really are.
In other words, he is showing class to an enemy of this country, while at the same time punching those people who care about this country in the stomach.
Bingo! You said better than I did. One, Coburn's joining the attack on Fox News by the radicals. Two, he's attacking his base, which is also under attack by Obama, Pelosi, Reid down to every third rate actress in the country.
Elected GOP politicians have to sometime, at last, knew to defend their supporters and not join in the attacks. Have they learned NOTHING from 8 years of Bush/Rove? Hell, even Rove NOW admits that he made a huge, big effing mistake, by not defending Bush or Bush supporters.
We screamed at Rove for 8 years to do this. He only learns in time to sell books. Now, every GOP politicians or wannabe politicians MUST LEARN to defend their supporters, who are under relentless attack by the establishment from every orifice. Outside of talk radio, we don't have anyone standing up for us.
Dear GOP, why has the Tea Party arisen? Why aren't they under the GOP? Ask yourself this, GOP apparatchiks? Why not?
You can bet he is hearing from a lot of his supporters.