DTravel,
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Originally Posted by DTravel
It keeps the one-issue extremists out of positions where they can force the shut-down of the government or a collapse of a "ruling coalition".
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Not sure what you mean here. Newt Gingrich and his ilk shut down the federal government back in, what was it, 1994? I don't think that did the Republicans much good as I think they lost pretty badly in the next election.
And I won't exactly be surprised to see another shutdown at the end of March as I think thats what the extreme right really wants. They have just enough members, and the threat to primary others, that they have just enough influence to pull that off it they want. Where it will lead them is probably to no good. Probably the same as Gingrich.