Conservatives seek to regain control of Republican agenda

[DonViejo]

By Robert Costa

Although many Republicans are optimistic about their chances in this year’s elections, some of Washington’s leading conservatives gathered Thursday to privately vent frustrations about what kind of party they will be left with after November.

The group, alarmed by a resurgence of the GOP establishment in recent primaries and what activists view as a softened message, drafted demands to be shared with senior lawmakers calling on the party to “recommit” to bedrock principles.

Some of those principles laid out in the new document — strict opposition to illegal immigration, same-sex marriage and abortion — represent the hot-button positions that many Republican congressional candidates are trying to avoid as the party attempts to broaden its appeal.

Several attendees said they fear that elected Republicans, even if they succeed in retaining control of the House and winning the Senate majority, would cast aside the core conservative base.

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[rurallib]

1. That word "conservative" has surely taken on new meanings

I doubt that there is a true conservative in the Republican party at all.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Here we go again with the GOP is not conservative enough, code for not Christian extreme enough.....

it is so obvious that the religious zealots and fascist sympathizers are the "bedrock" of the party, along with a sprinkle of pure crazy.

The Post calling them conservatives is an abomination of the word, by an abomination of a newspaper.