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Saved from Becoming “The Party of Nonsense?”

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com

Pete King doesn’t do alternative universes.

He also hates bullies.

When Newt Gingrich stepped off the back of Air Force One and complained that President Clinton wouldn’t talk to him, King called the Speaker, “political road kill.”

He did public battle with Tom DeLay at the height of DeLay’s political powers, something few people ever did.

By taking on Ted Cruz, another Texas politician he sees as a bully, King is doing what he always does: Speaking truth to power. Continue reading →

Three Republican Parties

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com

The results from Iowa show one thing very clearly: There are now three, distinct Republican parties.

The mainstream GOP captured about a quarter of the vote in the caucus polls. The social conservatives got about half. The libertarian got about a fifth.

Iowa is a bit skewed towards social conservatives. New Hampshire will show that the mainstream Republicans make up about a third of the party, the social conservatives about a third, while libertarians make up a third.

Mainstream Republicans are business-minded. They are the establishment folks. They are both small business owners and corporate employees. They are the Chamber of Commerce Republicans. They want the government to help business. Some mainstream Republicans are neo-conservative and care about defense issues, but mostly they view the world through the prism of business. Continue reading →