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Quote Of The Day
"Our party does not suffer the affliction of being a boiling mad collection of fringe interests with notions so cockeyed that they ultimately rub each other raw and make average Americans cringe. Republicans will never be that."
— Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, describing the Democratic Party in an interview with Reuters.
If what happened on Election Day is any indication, however, "average Americans" don't "cringe" at the party's ideas at all. Exit polls show that the Dems won the popular vote with a clear majority, 53%-45%.
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That is a very funny comment coming from a Texas Republican. After all it was the ideology of Texas republican party that pushed the national republican party out of the mainstream and into the ditch.
Barton's comment is a good sign though, it means that the Republicants won't be correcting course any time soon and the Democrats will be able to solidify their hold on the vital American center at a steady and easy pace.
November 10, 2006 2:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Joe Barton’s statement is bull but his tired old 20 second sound bite does appeal to his base. The GOP is full of fringe groups and the groups are already battling over their loss on Tuesday. Some neo-cons are bailing out (Vanity Fair article), the fundies are questioning how they got played and some regular Republicans are trying to figure out how their party got hijacked by the extremes.
November 10, 2006 3:11 PM | Reply | Permalink