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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"G.O.P. Weighs Limiting Clout of Right Wing"
G.O.P. Weighs Limiting Clout of Right WingBy JEREMY W. PETERS and JONATHAN MARTIN at the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/us/politics/gop-weighs-limiting-clout-of-right-wing.html?ref=politics&_r=0
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The party leaders pushing for changes want to replace state caucuses and conventions, like the one that nominated Mr. Cuccinelli, with a more open primary system that they believe will draw a broader cross-section of Republicans and produce more moderate candidates.
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Nowhere is the debate over how to limit the influence of the partys most hard-line activists more intense than in Utah, where in 2010 conservatives cheered as the Tea Party toppled one of the veteran Republican centrists in the Senate, Bob Bennett. The state partys caucus and convention system helped elevate Mike Lee, a little-known lawyer who replaced Mr. Bennett.
Now Mr. Lee is a patriarch of sorts to Tea Party conservatives in Congress. Though Senator Ted Cruz of Texas was the public face of the government shutdown fight, it was Mr. Lee who largely conceived the strategy in an effort to block funding for President Obamas health care law.
Back home, Mr. Lee is now at odds with Republican stalwarts like former Gov. Mike Leavitt, who are leading a campaign for a ballot initiative that would shift the state to a primary system where party conventions have no role in picking candidates and, instead, all Republicans can participate.
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"G.O.P. Weighs Limiting Clout of Right Wing" (Original Post)
applegrove
Nov 2013
OP
Should be interesting. When one sells his or her soul to the devil, the soul isn't
bluestate10
Nov 2013
#3
applegrove
(118,600 posts)1. The question is will measure like this activate the 'base' and thus
get foiled by the tea party? How do you deactivate something like the tea party while you are attacking them?
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)2. Too late - that ship's already sailed.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)3. Should be interesting. When one sells his or her soul to the devil, the soul isn't
given back.
DJ13
(23,671 posts)4. Like the far right will concede power they've recently attained
gopiscrap
(23,747 posts)5. do that and we'll have a thrid party
easier for the Dems!