The chairman of the House Republican Conference says it’s “hogwash” that GOP leaders are worried about what Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and the Tea Party movement are doing to their party’s image.
In a story headlined “Conservatives Roar; Republicans Tremble,” POLICO reported Thursday that “many top Republicans are growing worried that the party’s chances for reversing its electoral routs of 2006 and 2008 are being wounded by the flamboyant rhetoric and angry tone of conservative activists and media personalities.”
But House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.) says it’s not so.
“You know, the American people cherish their freedom of speech and a free and independent press. That’s why I found this morning’s headlines so troubling,” Pence said Thursday. “Goaded on by a White House increasingly intolerant of criticism, lately the national media has taken aim at conservative commentators in radio and television. Suggesting that they only speak for a small group of activists and even suggesting in one report today that Republicans in Washington are ‘worried about their electoral effect.’
“Well, that’s hogwash.”
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I don't see any conflict.
Me either I love old Glen he tells it like it is scares you to death but true.
Who was it that spewed hate for eight years against the last president, and why? it was jjust because he was a republican. The present crop of detractors can't even come close to the hate mongers and race baiters in the democratic party. They wrote the book on vitreol, they forever complain about partisanship, but they don't have a partisan bone in their body.