https://freerepublic.com/tag/wsjspam/ en-us Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:27:51 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389120/posts Republicans will make even moderate opponents answer for the radical views of DSA candidates. I have no objection to the Democrats’ nominating an oysterman for a Senate seat. When I led our party’s effort to recapture the House in 2006, we made a point of recruiting candidates with “authentic” broad-based appeal. But that strategy, which flipped 31 seats during my tenure, and claimed 21 more in 2008, was predicated on a substantive premise: We needed to allay voters’ worries that Democrats were weak on national defense and culturally out of touch, vulnerabilities born from previous elections. If we could do... The Wall Street Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389120/posts#comment Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:27:51 GMT