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by Greg Pierce, Inside Politics
“Last year, I organized the Rightroots effort to raise more than a quarter of a million dollars for Republican candidates in the last three months of the election,” conservative blogger John Hawkins writes at RightWingNews.com. “This year, if this amnesty bill passes, I’m going to organize a group of bloggers to raise money for any viable primary challengers to pro-amnesty Republicans in the Senate.
“I’m also going to offer those candidates my services, pro-bono, as a consultant, to try to get their names out in the blogosphere. On top of that, I’m going to hunt down every single piece of dirt I can find on the pro-amnesty Republicans and I’m going to release it in the blogosphere. Put another way, if you’re a Republican senator up for re-election in 2008 and you vote for amnesty – and you face a viable primary challenger – I’ve got two words for you: Scorched Earth.…
“You know, I hope it doesn’t come to this, I really do. But, there comes a point where conservatives have got to say ‘Enough is enough’ and take our party back from these arrogant, unprincipled, elitist, Country Club Republicans who dominate the Senate, who think that they no longer have to pay attention to their constituents, their base, or the American people.
“This time, they’re either going to pay attention, or we’re going to take two or three of their scalps and hang them on the wall come election time.”
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