Time for the GOP and the Tea-Partiers to Grow Up

Townhall.com ^ | October 19, 2009 | Carol Platt Liebau

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[Miss Marple]

No, those are issues we DON'T compromise on. But surely we can compromise on style. For instance, one group of people wants to go all-out attacking Obama; the other group (within the GOP) wants to be polite and not get hit with charges of racism. Somewhere between those two camps is a strategy that would go after Obama's policies and further erode his popularity without making him a martyr. Similarly, some of the Frum-Brooks group (mostly northeasterners) despise Sarah Palin because she isn't from an Ivy League school and they hate hearing a prominent GOP person mocked at the parties they go to. Well, it's time for them to be armed with some salient points for rebuttal and quit carping in newspapers about how bad Palin is. My opinion on this is either they shut up about Palin or we tell them to find another party.

[DB]

Care to expand on that?

[Dr.Zoidberg]

More of that good old fashioned mushy, moderate, mealymouthed melody of abandon principles if it means the (R) wins.

We got a belly full of that right here at FR leading up to the Mcloon crash and burn.

Anyone who suggests “realism” and “growing up” as a substitute to conservatism (if it sticks an (R) in a seat) is a questionable friend of The Republic.