Tom, let me ask: Is not fighting for the voters that made your party the majority (biggest in 80 years) considered “unprofessional”?
WashPost: McConnell Pledges to Avoid ‘Scary’ Excesses and ‘Strident Stands’ of ‘Far Right’
By Tim Graham | January 5, 2015 | 8:39 AM EST
The Washington Post is positioning the Senate conservatives as “scary” in Monday’s editions. Online, the headline was “New Senate majority leader’s main goal for GOP: Don’t be scary.”
Liberal congressional reporter Paul Kane relayed that Democrats think that appeasing “far-right conservatives” will lead to Republican defeats in 2016:
Democrats are dubious of McConnell’s pledge to avert edge-of-the-cliff moments. They believe he will run into the same problems that have bedeviled House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) during the past four years — including the inability to corral rabble-rousers such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) to support an agenda that conservative critics will probably view as not bold enough in challenging Obama. Appeasing those far-right conservatives will lead to an agenda that Democrats hope to exploit in 2016.