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January 28, 2012

It's Now the GOP Establishment vs. the Tea Party

Sarah Palin, Facebook


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We have witnessed something very disturbing this week. The Republican establishment which fought Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and which continues to fight the grassroots Tea Party movement today has adopted the tactics of the left in using the media and the politics of personal destruction to attack an opponent.

We will look back on this week and realize that something changed. I have given numerous interviews wherein I espoused the benefits of thorough vetting during aggressive contested primary elections, but this week’s tactics aren’t what I meant.

 

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Related Topics: election 2012, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich

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