The Artist Formerly Known As Mr. Creosote.
Posted on 06/12/2014 4:45:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If the GOP is unwilling to stand up to radicals, it might as well just rename itself the Committee to Elect Hillary Clinton.
Eric Cantor tried to appease Republican radicals. They turned on him anyway.
John Boehner has tried to resist them. They just overwhelmed him.
Mitt Romney tried to join them—and in doing so fastened onto his party the platform that lost the presidential election of 2012.
At some point, Republican leaders must recognize that they have a fight on their hands whether they like it or not. If they refuse to join that fight, they will be devoured anyway. If they surrender, they condemn the whole conservative project in America to the destructive leadership of fanatics (and the cynics who make their living by duping fanatics).
This lesson keeps being administered. Republican leaders repeatedly refuse to learn.
The political exemplar most relevant to today's GOP is not the oft-invoked Ronald Reagan. It is Tony Blair, who revived his party by standing up to its most extreme elements....
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
David Frum, senior editor. That’s funny!
They’re still telegraphing their fear of the Tea Party and still trying to convince (with a lot of success) the GOPe that they must battle the Tea Party or risk losing to DemocRATS.
Stupidly, the GOPe actually is gullible enough to believe this BS.
Ha ha ha - is funny - it is to laugh. Republicans fighting back????
FU Frum, you worthless Socialist.
David Frum giving fighting advice is even more funny
We now know the answer to lifes greatest question...
Does the stupid burn?
Yes. Like a magnesium fire.
Oh. My.
“radical” = anyone who refuses to go along with Obama’s treachery
So the way to win elections is to agree with and assist in implementing the democrat’s agenda! If your opposed to that then your an extreme fanatic! Got it.
The Artist Formerly Known As Mr. Creosote.
Note the vacant `1,000 Yard Stare,’ denoting a large man who just faced-down two dozen donuts!
Thank you for saving me the trouble.
Frum used to be worth reading. He did a fine history of the 1970s called “How We Got Here”...today, he is a pathetic hand wringer for eastern Rockefeller Republicans.
Frum is insane.
I find it hilarious that the commie ‘RATS are worried about the “republicans”. Frum is an idiot.
I guess I am a duped fanatic.
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