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Conservatives Aim the Blame for Election Losses
By Rachel Kapochunas, CQ Staff
Conservative Republicans at a major conference in Washington this week are promoting a message in the wake of the GOP’s recent election losses: “don’t blame us.”
They argued Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that if their party had stuck to conservative principles, the November election outcomes might have been different. Republicans in 2006 lost control of the House and in 2008, lost the White House and additional seats in both the House and Senate.
Rick Davis, campaign manager for 2008 GOP presidential candidate John McCain, appeared on BBC News’ HARDtalk Jan. 15 and suggested conservatives were to blame for the Arizona senator’s presidential loss.
“When you have the Rush Limbaughs of the world who, you know, literally almost feed the nativist attitude toward immigration reform, what do you think the Hispanic voter, the Latino voter is gonna remember? They’re gonna remember the attacks, not the efforts by people like John McCain to try and reform,” Davis said.
But Republicans at the conference Thursday argued that the 2008 election was a referendum on moderates.
“There is no bigger reason we lost this election than our own hypocrisy,” Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis told an audience gathered to hear a presentation billed as, “The Key to Victory? Listen to Conservatives.” Anuzis said the blame for election losses rests squarely on conservatives who were elected to office “and then they went to Washington and lost their way.”
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