After attacks by Rush Limbaugh and Tony Perkins, the National Council for a New America gets hit again for not focusing on the so-called value voters agenda:
In a fresh round of GOP infighting over the soul of the battered party, Mike Huckabee just took a shot at a host of potential primary rivals, disparaging Eric Cantor’s new group to revive the GOP, the National Council for a New America, and the high-profile Republicans that make up the group’s "panel of experts." [...]
"It is a sad day when our party comes to the point where we think it is necessary to form a `listening group’ to find out what Americans think we should be fighting for," Huckabee said. "Our problem is not lack of `experts,’ but too many of them and not enough attention to the hard working people in our communities that aren’t connected to the Beltway, but to the heartland."
And through a spokesman, Cantor folded:
"Eric reached out to Governor Huckabee, appreciates his efforts as a leader in our nation and he looks forward to remaining in close communication with all leaders," Dayspring told me, adding that social issues would be a focus of Cantor’s group: "All issues, all topics, and all ideas will be included in the dialogue that the National Council for a New America will have."
In just a week, the NCNA has gone from:
A formal acknowledgement by top congressional and national leaders that the GOP needs to change its pitch and its ideas.
... to the same old thing. Goposaurs rule. Their world anyway.