republicans are opposed to the way republicans talk about social security. raising taxes on millionaires, for example, 43% of republicans are actually in favor of that. require employers to cover birth control, the latest issue, 50% of republicans to support that. but more precisely, requiring insurance companies of religious affiliated employers to cover birth control, a full 41% of republicans support that. and that s something you would never know, listening to republican politicians. well, i think what happened was, there are two things. one is the miserable succession of economic crisis and economic news gave republicans confidence that they were going to beat president obama in the fall, because if unemployment s 9%, 10%, it s very hard to get re-elected. second of all, the victory of the tea party enforced to a degree rigidity on the people in the party themselves, because they saw what happened to the mike castles, for instance, of
i mean, conservatism never fails, it is always failed. but the 64 example, what happened after barry goldwater, then the most conservative republican to ever get the nomination is conservatism went into a fast retreat in republican politics, and liberalism advanced faster than it ever had, with the legislation lbj was able to do after that and going forward to the 70s. you could argue that that s beginning to happen now, regardless of whether rick santorum was a nominee. you have a huge cleave within the party. they have no idea, you have the uber conservative tea party wing, the establishment wing that s moving ever towards the center. the infighting, the inability of anyone in the republican caucus to get anything done, and now on the national stage, two candidates that are neither here nor there for vast parts of the american party and their base. i want to take a fast look at what republicans really think. medicare vouchers, for example, 56% of republicans oppose that. soci
way republicans talk about social security. raising taxes on millionaires, for example, 43% of republicans are actually in favor of that. require employers to cover birth control, the latest issue, 50% of republicans to support that. but more precisely, requiring insurance companies of religious affiliated employers to cover birth control, a full 41% of republicans support that. and that s something you would never know, listening to republican politicians. well, i think what happened was, there are two things. one is the miserable succession of economic crisis and economic news gave republicans confidence that they were going to beat president obama in the fall, because if unemployment s 9%, 10%, it s very hard to get re-elected. second of all, the victory of the tea party enforced to a degree rigidity on the people in the party themselves, because they saw what happened to the mike castles, for instance, of delaware, who got knocked off, because they were too heterodox
right? i mean, conservatism never fails, it is always failed. but the 64 example, what happened after barry goldwater, then the most conservative republican to ever get the nomination is conservatism went into a fast retreat in republican politics, and liberalism advanced faster than it ever had, with the legislation lbj was able to do after that and going forward to the 70s. you could argue that that s beginning to happen now, regardless of whether rick santorum was a nominee. you have a huge cleave within the party. they have no idea, you have the uber conservative tea party wing, the establishment wing that s moving ever towards the center. the infighting, the inability of anyone in the republican caucus to get anything done, and now on the national stage, two candidates that are neither here nor there for vast parts of the american party and their base. i want to take a fast look at what republicans really think. medicare vouchers, for example, 56% of republicans oppose tha