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lsandersonThe NRCC has abandoned three Republican-leaning House districts and left the incumbents there to fend for themselves. What this means is that the NRCC believes the seats are lost and there is no point on wasting scarce resources on them. The incumbent Republican representatives left high and dry are Marilyn Musgrave (CO-04, PVI R+9), Michele Bachmann (MN-06, PVI R+5), and Tom Feeney (FL-24, PVI R+3).
Under the motto: "You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't" The NRCC has a problem on its hand. The social conservatives have lashed out at the NRCC for dropping Musgrave and Bachmann like hot potatoes. Leaders like Tony Perkins call it cutting and running. He and some others want to fight for extreme conservatives like these two women until the last dog dies. The NRCC sees this as a triage operation: abandon hopeless causes irrespective of ideology to try to save more moderate Republicans who have a chance. The attack from Perkins could be a foreboding of fratricide within the Republican party if the Democrats win all the marbles. The social conservatives will be blaming the Republicans for not campaigning on a theme of overturning Roe v. Wade. The economic conservatives will be saying that there wasn't enough emphasis on tax cuts to stimulate the economy. Everybody will blame everybody else. It won't be pretty. More
