Saturday, May 17, 2008

REP. TOM DAVIS SEES THE GOP'S PROBLEM THIS FALL

At this point, the GOP is down to the most extreme members of its base and that won't be anywhere near enough to win. That also means that the remnants won't be happy with any move to the center, so there's not much the GOP can do between now and November.
(via Taegan Goddard)

MR. HUNT: Tom, he this week unveiled a major climate-change proposal and, yet, some Republicans, some of the political and financial base are complaining, boy, he's gotten too green.

REP. DAVIS: That's right. I mean, things change hard and when your base, by the way, when there is seepage and your brand name is going down and your party registration is going down, the people that are left tend to be the hard core. And it makes it harder and harder to change. But the public is way ahead of a lot of these Republicans on climate change. They recognize that the world is way ahead of us.

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