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Republican voters remain strongly critical of how their party’s representatives in Congress are performing and have a highly favorable opinion of the Tea Party movement that is pushing the GOP more to the political right.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 19% of Likely Republican Primary Voters believe Republicans in Congress have done a good job representing the party’s values over the past several years.
Seventy-two percent (72%) say GOP members of Congress instead have lost touch with Republican Party members throughout the nation in recent years.
GOP Congressmen should be very careful of what they do over the next few years, that much is obvious. But I think that state-level Republicans should take a break from their ecstatic celebration of retaking the state Legislature and pay a little attention to this poll, as well.
I believe if a similar poll was taken within the state, we'd see similar results in reference to the state-level GOP.
I'm hearing a lot of disturbing feedback about what the GOP leadership is planning. Let's just say that the Tea Party was welcome when we generated the passion and momentum they needed to win the elections, but not so much now. I've heard phrases like "b*tch-slap" and "kicked to the curb" in reference to the tea parties and the Alabama politicians who support them. And those quotes aren't coming from outsiders, they're coming from insiders, people who see it happening but are powerless to stop their own leadership.
Pay attention, Alabama GOP. We, the voters who put you in power a week ago, are very skeptical of you. We believe you are likely to mess up and betray us. And if you do, your wonderful little majority could easily disappear in two years.
It's time for the elected officials to kick their out-of-touch leadership to the curb and make sure they are doing what the voters want them to do. What the voters ELECTED them to do.
Pay attention, GOP leadership. There is NO second chance.
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