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US Republican hawks threaten Republican senators against voting for nuclear arms reduction treaty

“fully committed” to defeating any GOP senator that votes for ratification during the lame-duck session.

Group Vows Primaries for GOP Senators Who Vote for START – Real Clear Politics – TIME.com, by Scott Conroy, 18 Dec 10, A prominent conservative political action committee is vowing to defeat any Republican senator who votes to ratify the New START nuclear arms control treaty with Russia in the lame-duck session of Congress.

The National Republican Trust PAC is making its pledge in a letter that was obtained by RealClearPolitics before it was set to be delivered on Friday afternoon.

In the letter, the PAC’s executive director Scott Wheeler writes to National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Sen. John Cornyn and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele that the group is “fully committed” to defeating any GOP senator that votes for ratification during the lame-duck session.

“We as a country cannot allow our national defense to be greatly undermined by a President and members of a lame duck Congress who are hell-bent on redistributing America’s military advantage because of their bizarre belief that the US lacks the moral authority to be the world’s lone superpower,” the letter says. “Republicans cannot and must not participate in the sell out of our national defense merely because of political pressures applied to them by an extremist President and a liberal media.”…….

Group Vows Primaries for GOP Senators Who Vote for START – Real Clear Politics – TIME.com

December 18, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, USA