This is one issue where I agree with Newt Gingrich....
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted disaster for his party if the conservative wing of the GOP continues to field independent candidates to the right of the party’s nominee.
“If we get into a cycle where there are tea parties and there are conservative third-party candidates, we will make [Nancy] Pelosi speaker for life,” Gingrich told POLITICO in an interview Thursday, calling the practice “totally destructive.”
.... Gingrich recounted that he became speaker after the 1994 GOP sweep, thanks to a bloc of support from a moderate wing of the party that is now nearly extinct.
Yet even as he urged his party to take a pragmatic tack to regain the congressional majority, the former speaker showed off his pugnacious side, asserting that top Democrats were contemptuous of religion....
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29496.html
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....at least until his "Democrats are anti-religiion" nonsense.
We can disagree on why or how...but it is a fact that the Democratic party includes many moderates among members of Congress and that moderate Republicans are an endangered species.