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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 09:26 PM Dec 2012

Right-wing movers and shakers sent letter urging Republicans to stand up to the "liberal apparatus"

Conservative activists to GOP lawmakers: You are being tested

A group of right-wing movers and shakers sent a letter urging Republicans to stand up to the "liberal apparatus"

BY JILLIAN RAYFIELD


A group of big right-wing activists wrote an open letter to House and Senate Republicans, telling them they are “entering into a period of testing,” wherein their conservative principles will be challenged and “the whole leftist apparatus is gearing up to panic you and to force you to cave in. Don’t do it.”

The letter, posted by conservative columnist Morton Blackwell on RedState.com, urges lawmakers to be strong against the liberals’ “current power grabs.”

“If Republicans cave in now, when it really counts, next time you will be weaker, because your conservative base will be outraged,” the letter says. “Many who worked hard to elect you in the past will never lift a finger for you again.”

The letter concludes:

So it’s in the interest of the country and in your personal interest for you to use the power you unquestionably have now to stand firm and not surrender your conservative principles, no matter how loud the clamor of people whose central interest is to advance the left’s agenda.


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more:
http://www.salon.com/2012/12/12/conservative_activists_to_gop_lawmakers_you_are_being_tested/
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Right-wing movers and shakers sent letter urging Republicans to stand up to the "liberal apparatus" (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2012 OP
Networking a massive Pout . Cracked Actors, all of them !!! orpupilofnature57 Dec 2012 #1
That's the ticket! After a crushing defeat due to your crazy positions, dig your heels in!! Yeah! Squinch Dec 2012 #2
 

orpupilofnature57

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1. Networking a massive Pout . Cracked Actors, all of them !!!
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 09:34 PM
Dec 2012

ShrubCo fed their delusion of a smokey backroom future, and we let them down with confidence, which ousted their favorite weapon, fear .

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