Bill Clinton: Republican party controlled by most extreme members
Source: NBC
Former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday painted Republicans as a party controlled by its most extreme members, unwilling to compromise and too conservative for former GOP leaders like Richard Nixon and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
"Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower Richard Nixons too liberal for these people. Its amazing," Clinton told the 2,000 people packed into a hotel ballroom here. He said the most right-wing members of the GOP control the party's nominations and "political operations."
Clinton has spent the past two days campaigning for President Barack Obama in Florida. The tour comes a week after he delivered a well-received speech at the Democratic National Convention in which he laid out the case for the president's re-election.
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"The American people have to believe me on this; I have traveled all over the world, not just when I was president, but since I left, Clinton said. I work everywhere. I'm telling you what works; what works is cooperation. What fails is constant conflict. You've got to vote for cooperation."
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enzinarticle
(10 posts)interesting
DJ13
(23,671 posts).....than continuing to move our party further right just to cut deals with the GOP.
msongs
(67,441 posts)repubs will never negotiate, having learned that they don't have to