Tom Cole: Town Halls Part of ‘Legitimate Dissent’

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SCARBOROUGH: "And how important is it for Republicans to get out there and not convince — the Republicans shouldn’t convince themselves what Democrats tried to convince themselves of in 2009." 
COLE: "I think that is very important. I think Governor Sanford had it exactly right in his earlier comments on your show. Listen, this is part of legitimate dissent and people are allowed to come do it. Frankly the town hall meetings I had during the ObamaCare town hall eruptions were probably, in some ways, more difficult. The crowds were bigger but they weren’t happy with you no matter where you were on the issue. So I think we will probably see something like this going forward for a while and again, that is okay. It’s actually much more healthy for people to be engaged in civic activity and legitimate dissent than it is for them to be either not participating at all or resorting to some sort of violence and we certainly don’t have that going on at all."