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Conservative Columnist: Obamacare Campaign Is 'Suicide Of The Right'

Conservative Columnist: Obamacare Campaign Is 'The Suicide Of The Right'
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Politics Editor, The Huffington Post

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio prepares leave following a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, as the partial government shutdown enters its second week with no end in sight. Democrats controlling the Senate plan to move quickly toward a vote to allow the government to borrow more money, challenging Republicans to a filibuster showdown as the time remaining to stop a first-ever default on U.S. obligations ticks by. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio prepares leave following a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, as the partial government shutdown enters its second week with no end in sight. Democrats controlling the Senate plan to move quickly toward a vote to allow the government to borrow more money, challenging Republicans to a filibuster showdown as the time remaining to stop a first-ever default on U.S. obligations ticks by. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Conservative columnist John Podhoretz railed against Republicans' strategies on Wednesday, casting the party's fight against Obamacare as the "Suicide of the Right."

In an op-ed for the New York Post, Podhoretz lamented how Republicans are looking "considerably worse" than President Barack Obama and Democrats, thanks to Obamacare not being as unpopular as the party makes it out to be.

"I dislike what they dislike," Podhoretz wrote. "I want what they want. But I fear they are very, very wrong about the existence of this silent majority, and that their misperception is leading them to do significant damage to the already damaged Republican 'brand.'"

Podhoretz' comments arrived on the heels of another poll showing that Republicans are footing the blame for the 2013 government shutdown. Wednesday's Associated Press-GfK survey shows that 62 percent mainly blamed Republicans, while about half placed responsibility on Obama or Democrats.

According to HuffPost Pollster's latest charts, both parties have suffered a hit in terms of favorability. Of 30 publicly available polls, Democrats are facing a 50.4 percent unfavorable rating. Republicans are staring at slightly worse result, with a 55.9 percent unfavorable rating.

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