After Losses, GOP Taking Hard Turn to Right
Steve Benen, NY Daily News
Joe Scarborough, the MSNBC host and former Republican congressman, acknowledged this week that when he joined Congress in 1994, he was so conservative, some of his colleagues considered him a "nut job." A decade after leaving Capitol Hill, however, Scarborough sees the GOP drifting beyond his ideological limits, leaving him feeling "distant from the people who are running my party."The sharp ideological shift is hard to miss. It's even harder to understand.In the wake of the 2008 elections, the Republican Party's second consecutive humiliating cycle, the GOP...
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