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libertarian that wants to withdraw in terms of national security, wants to cut the defense budget even. then you have another faction that just wants to slash across the budget, cut social services, cut food stamps. what is the core belief system now that aen mates the party other than disliking obama? we re seeing cracks now but i think the core is still dislaking and wanting to stop obama and his agenda. the one thing to get at that poll, to amplify that poll of republican voters saying you should be more conservative, when you had nancy pelosi saying how will republicans go back and explain to the american people what didn t happen this year, well, the republicans are going back to districts that in almost every case voted for mitt romney last year. there are only nine republicans in the entire u.s. house who represent districts that did not vote for mitt romney. their constituents are very different read on what s playing out in washington, what congress failed to do this year th
this is actually pretty simple. if you re about to talk about rape as anything other than a brutal and horrible crime, stop. stop yourself, congressman. deep breath. try some gum or maybe a lozenge. so that s what s happening at the national level. republicans pleading with other republicans to please for god s sake stop talking the way you talk about women and rape and abortion. that s the conversation in d.c. where outside the house of representatives republicans are out of power and part of the reason they are out of power is their public embrace of hard-line fringe anti-abortion politics. but if you look outside d.c., to where republicans really are in power, this year in this legislative session in 2013 the hard-line fringe anti-abortion politics story is playing out totally differently than it s playing out in washington. in states where republicans actually control government there is not less emphasis right now on this stuff. like there is in d.c. there s more emphasis on it.
rape as anything other than a brutal and horrible crime, stop. stop yourself, congressman. deep breath. try some gum or maybe a lozenge. so that s what s happening at the national level. republicans pleading with other republicans to please for god s sake stop talking the way you talk about women and rape and abortion. that s the conversation in d.c. where outside the house of representatives republicans are out of power and part of the reason they are out of power is their public embrace of hard-line fringe anti-abortion politics. but if you look outside d.c., to where republicans really are in power, this year in this legislative session in 2013 the hard-line fringe anti-abortion politics story is playing out totally differently than it s playing out in washington. in states where republicans actually control government there is not less emphasis right now on this stuff. like there is in d.c. there s more emphasis on it. 2013 so far shows a whole new
like that and its attendant inevitable electoral defeats, republican strategists are now coaching their party to not do that anymore. they re holding training programs and seminars with pollsters, all dispensing friendly advice to republicans about how to stop talking in public about abortion and rape in ways that creep everybody out. this is actually pretty simple. if you re about to talk about rape as anything other than a brutal and horrible crime, stop. stop yourself, congressman. deep breath. try some gum or maybe a lozenge. so that s what s happening at the national level. republicans pleading with other republicans to please for god s sake stop talking the way you talk about women and rape and abortion. that s the conversation in d.c. where outside the house of representatives republicans are out of power and part of the reason they are out of power is their public embrace of hard-line fringe anti-abortion politics. but if you look outside d.c., to where republicans really are