Joe Scarborough Says GOP Needs To Stop Being ‘Afraid Of Their Own Shadows’

Scarborough: Moderate GOP Must Stop Being ‘Afraid of Their Own Shadows’ (Mediaite)

An unusually large amount of Republican voices (three!) on Morning Joe Tuesday morning coalesced around the call for moderate GOP lawmakers to stop being intimidated by the threat of hard-right primary challengers and stand up to a tea party caucus that is pushing the party in ever more contentious directions.

“Republicans have to stop being afraid of the notion of being primaried,” former George W Bush communucations director Nicolle Wallace said. “Republicans have to say bring it on, primary me. Because here’s what the tea party brought you. The sequester is something they’re proud to have brought you because it brought down spending, but not the right kind of spending…They brought you a government shut down, where people who don’t have a voice, people who actual depend on federal benefits have been hurt.”