Venture investor Chris Sacca certainly isn’t the first to call for the GOP to purge the “extremists” from the party. Plenty would like to see the Republicans act more like Democrats to increase their appeal to, well, Democrats, and there are a lot of Republicans who are all too happy to comply.<\/p>\n
So, what’s in it for a liberal like Sacca? In short, “an informed, thoughtful, honorable opposition” that he’d most likely never vote for in a million years, but at least he’d respect it more. How about the Democrats showing their extremists the door too? Oh wait, there aren’t any.<\/p>\n\n\n
@sacca<\/a> same to be said for both side of the isle.<\/p>\n — Zeb Palmer (@zebpalmer) February 13, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n @zebpalmer<\/a> That’s what is referred to as a false equivalency.<\/p>\n — Chris Sacca (@sacca) February 13, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n @sacca<\/a> seems pretty short sighted… it’s pretty clear that the loudest idiots on both sides get the most attention.<\/p>\n — Zeb Palmer (@zebpalmer) February 13, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n @zebpalmer<\/a> But the policies of the President have been moderate and, frankly, many of them are centrist GOP principles. False equivalency.<\/p>\n — Chris Sacca (@sacca) February 13, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n @sacca<\/a> @mowheeler<\/a> I see extremists on both sides that are causing this gridlock in DC. Am I missing something?<\/p>\n — Ryan Gambrill (@RyanGambrill) February 13, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n @ryangambrill<\/a> @mowheeler<\/a> Yes. You are missing what’s called a “false equivalency”.<\/p>\n — Chris Sacca (@sacca) February 13, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n Update:<\/p>\n Hey, commenters, Sacca is not a fan:<\/p>\n\n\n Considering a political career? If so, remember the rest of your life will be as rewarding as this comment thread: twitchy.com\/2013\/02\/13\/twi…<\/a><\/p>\n — Chris Sacca (@sacca) February 14, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/02\/13\/twitter-investor-chris-sacca-urges-moderate-republicans-to-take-back-their-party\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/sacca\/status\/301538367013810177 Venture investor Chris Sacca certainly isn’t the first to call for the GOP to purge the “extremists” from the party. Plenty would like to see the Republicans act more like Democrats to increase their appeal to, well, Democrats, and there are a lot of Republicans who are all too happy to comply. So, what’s … Continue reading Twitter investor Chris Sacca urges moderate Republicans to take back party<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/14341671547862-chris-sacca.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}