Conservatives target their own fringe
From Politico.com:
After months of struggling to harness the energy of newly engaged tea party activists, the conservative establishment – with critical midterm congressional elections on the horizon – is taking aim for the first time at the movement’s extremist elements.
The move has been cast by some conservatives as a modern version of the marginalization of the far-right anti-communist Joihn Birch Society during the reorganization of the conservative movement spearheaded in the 1960s and 1970s by William F. Buckley, Jr…
“I don’t believe we should be giving (extremists) a platform or empowering them to do anything based off their conspiracy theories,” said Ned Ryun, president of American Majority, “because they give the left ammunition to try to define the tea party movement as crazy and fringy.”
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Moderate Republicans need to reassert control over their crumbling, incoherent party. Rahm called the left end the infamous R-word. Many Democrats still seethe with hatred for Ralph Nader. Perhaps Republicans are due for another Ross Perot type.