Heritage Foundation gets tough: Think tank puts punch behind its conservative ideas

Heritage Foundation gets tough: Think tank puts punch behind its conservative ideas | WashingtonExaminer.com:
"The Heritage Foundation has decided it is better to be feared than loved.

The conservative think tank conducted private market research on Capitol Hill between 2008 and 2009, asking respondents whether they were ever worried about being on the wrong side of Heritage’s position.

“Overwhelmingly, nobody cared,” said Tim Chapman, now the chief operating officer of Heritage Action, the organization’s three-year-old advocacy arm.

To combat this, the think tank created Heritage Action to knock some skulls around. But by doing so, Heritage upset the traditionally cozy relationship the Heritage Foundation had with congressional Republicans."

Taxpayers and our silent majority of conservative, producing Americans need to learn from this.