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GOPers Interested in Sending a Message to Party in ’06 Are Off Base

To say that I was astonished by longtime conservative Richard Viguerie’s attack piece on President Bush in Sunday’s Washington Post would be putting it mildly. I understand that certain elements of the GOP’s most conservative wing have their gripes. But, however disgruntled they may be, how can Viguerie expect to be taken seriously when he advocates a strategy that would elect House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to Speaker and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to Senate Majority Leader?

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.
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