Fresh GOP Infighting: First Shots Fired In 2012 Primary?

[babylonsister]

Fresh GOP Infighting: First Shots Fired In 2012 Primary?


Uh oh — looks like the 2012 GOP primary, or at least a preview of it, is getting underway.

In a fresh round of GOP infighting over the soul of the battered party, Mike Huckabee just took a shot at a host of potential primary rivals, disparaging Eric Cantor’s new group to revive the GOP, the National Council for a New America, and the high-profile Republicans that make up the group’s “panel of experts.”

The experts Huckabee was referring to include Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, and Bobby Jindal, all of whom are being talked about for 2012.

Huckabee’s broadside came in a statement attacking Cantor’s group, which Cantor has said was formed partly to “listen” to the American people.

“It is a sad day when our party comes to the point where we think it is necessary to form a `listening group’ to find out what Americans think we should be fighting for,” Huckabee said. “Our problem is not lack of `experts,’ but too many of them and not enough attention to the hard working people in our communities that aren’t connected to the Beltway, but to the heartland.”

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http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/republican-party/fresh-gop-infighting-first-shots-fired-in-2012-primary/

[bigscott]

1. the huckster

is channeling the rushster

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Mike's just mad they're not thumping the Bible enough.

[Arugula Latte]

3. "what Americans think we should be fighting for"

Um, Huck, I think you mean "what the white religiously insane ultra-right Taliban Americans think we should be fighting for."