Sunday, October 13, 2013

Poisonous family feud

Steve LaTourette is a former US Rep. from Ohio and GOP. He says the gov't shutdown and debt ceiling squabble is all within the GOP, the two factions battling for the future of the party.

One side has read and believes the reports produced by various GOP thinkers after the last election about the party needing to broaden its base.

The other side believes in the existing (shrinking) base must be catered to, and the reason why Romney and other conservatives lost was because they weren't conservative enough. This is all about ideology.

LaTourette says as long as that second faction has its way the GOP "will become increasingly poisonous as a brand."

My reaction: let's keep the dispute going. The brand could use more poisoning.

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