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Party Wages War on GOP Voters

Khadijah Wrote: Jan 14, 2013 2:32 PM
This is an extremely serious allegation to be making without backup data. The Voting RIghts Act forces southern GOP legislatures to draw lines where they would prefer not to at times; Texas got four more seats and the Dems won three of them, because of the courts. I would like to see some evidence that shows that angst was the cause of the West redistricting. And, BTW, let me say something about West. To me, he is a fantastic conservative, but not a well disciplined politician. Politicians, rightly or wrongly, need to know how and when to properly promote their ideas, but also know when to put a cork in it'; it didn't seem to me that West had the latter skill.
The very quotable British novelist Samuel Butler observed that, “Self-preservation is the first law of nature.”  Reports coming from Washington seem to show that this instinct is increasingly demonstrated in a very short-sighted set of actions by institutional Republicans in light of recent successes where grassroots held their elected representatives’ feet to the fire; a fire fueled by the party platform.
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