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Moderate Republicans Lament GOP Shift Further Right
Newsmax / The Boston Globe ^ | 2011-07-27 | Caroline Rawls

Posted on 08/05/2011 7:20:45 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

Polls indicating that the Republican Party is moving further to the right are leaving a large faction of moderate Republicans feeling disenchanted with the party’s conservative drift, reports The Boston Globe.

In 2010, some of the GOP’s most outspoken leaders helped propel Republican candidates into power in the House. The tea party movement was influential in securing this takeover.

But Gallup poll findings to be released Friday indicate that the GOP’s conservative shift is isolating its moderate wing, the Globe reported. Self-described moderates made up almost one-third of the Republican Party just 10 years ago. Now, that fraction has dropped to less than one-fourth, according to the Globe.

Meanwhile, those identifying with the Republican Party are more conservative than ever. The percentage of Republicans who label themselves conservative has risen 10 points since 2002, from 62 to 72 percent.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012gopprimary; gop; mccain; rinofreeamerica; rinopurge; rinos; rinos4obama; romney; teaparty; teapartyrebellion; traitors; vichyrinos
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
A "moderate" Republican is a Democrat.

'Moderate' Republicans tend to be fiscal conservatives, but social liberals. They're embarrassed by those silly religious nuts who are pro-life and anti-homosexual marriage; how gauche!

41 posted on 08/05/2011 8:10:13 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

They don’t like it they can change parties. They vote left anyway.


42 posted on 08/05/2011 8:13:09 PM PDT by fantom (,)
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To: rabscuttle385
the GOP’s conservative shift is isolating its moderate wing

The "murder-its" The baby-killer wing of the Republican Party.

43 posted on 08/05/2011 8:20:29 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER ( Liberals, nothing more than bald haired hippies.)
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To: Navy Patriot

One more election like the last and we will have control and we can neutralise the RINO’s. And deal with the Commie Bastards.

With Gods help, we will get-er done.


44 posted on 08/05/2011 8:28:42 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: muawiyah
I don’t know ANY “moderate Republicans”

Oh, I'm sure you could scare up a few at your local golf course if you really wanted to meet some.

45 posted on 08/05/2011 8:30:22 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER ( Liberals, nothing more than bald haired hippies.)
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To: rabscuttle385
From the article:

Though polls indicate Republican voters would support a combination of spending cuts and tax increases...

I wonder how they framed the question so they could write that statement? What percentage of "Repubs" "would support" tax increases? What "polls"? There's more than one poll that "indicate" this, Newsmax? Let's see those "polls", please!

46 posted on 08/05/2011 8:31:00 PM PDT by jeffc (Prayer. It's freedom of speech.)
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To: rabscuttle385

If a Boston Globe Presstitute like Caroline Rawls claims it, must it be true?


47 posted on 08/05/2011 8:33:55 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Fort Belvoir?


48 posted on 08/05/2011 8:34:24 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: rabscuttle385
Polls indicating that the Republican Party is moving further to the right are leaving a large faction of moderate Republicans feeling disenchanted with the party’s conservative drift, reports The Boston Globe.

Tough toenails, RINOs. Time for you to go.

You're just as responsible for the mess we're in as the Democrats are.

49 posted on 08/05/2011 8:34:29 PM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: rabscuttle385

good. imo, this is a major goal of the tea party. convert them to true conservatives or drive the “moderate” rino squish elements out of the R party.

that will hamstring the rino republican collective that is stopping us from taking over the party, making way for us independent conservatives to finally come in from the cold and unite with republican conservatives in a drive to restore the republic.

until then. we fight on from the outside. not a vote. not a dime to a rino.


50 posted on 08/05/2011 8:34:34 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: rabscuttle385

Agi-propt!


51 posted on 08/05/2011 8:35:21 PM PDT by Clock King (Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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To: rabscuttle385
"Moderate" Republicans?

"Moderate" Republicans are Progressives (see TR who believed every American was entitled to health insurance), and Progressives are way left of "Moderates".

52 posted on 08/05/2011 8:43:50 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: rabscuttle385

TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!

*inhales*

TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!


53 posted on 08/05/2011 8:54:09 PM PDT by chris37 (representative)
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To: rabscuttle385

Moderate and extreme. God I loath the press.


54 posted on 08/05/2011 8:55:43 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: rabscuttle385

I guess it’s ok that Moderates are upset that Conservatives are swinging to the right, I have been disenchanted with the RINO Moderates for a long time.

They need to go over and register Democrat if they are going to vote Democrat.


55 posted on 08/05/2011 9:00:48 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: rabscuttle385
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwater. 1964

It's time, I think. Maybe long past it, but it's time.

56 posted on 08/05/2011 9:07:37 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: rabscuttle385

CommieCrats and Socialicans vs the Tea Party.

Pray for America


57 posted on 08/05/2011 9:09:27 PM PDT by bray (Hey Country Club, your turn to hold your nose!)
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To: rabscuttle385

When will these people start accepting the fact that they have bleed the nation to near death and that we are on a non-sustainable path?

Professional pols from both parties, the leftist media and the idiots who vote for people like Obama, Pelosi, Reid, McCain, etc. want to keep the gravy train going, even if it destroys the nation, which it will.


58 posted on 08/05/2011 9:29:22 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The more effeminate & debauched the people, the more they are fitted for a tyrannical government.)
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To: muawiyah

The only ‘moderate’ Republicans are elected officials. Moderate Republicans are all chiefs, no indians.


59 posted on 08/05/2011 9:50:02 PM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (.Are they stupid, malicious or evil?)
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To: rabscuttle385

“It’s a jump to the left, then a step to the right”...


60 posted on 08/05/2011 10:08:43 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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