...the Journal writer has this to say:
But these newly energized conservatives present GOP leaders with a potential problem: The party's strategy for attracting moderate voters risks alienating activists who are demanding ideological purity, who may then gravitate to other candidates or stay at home. It's a classic dilemma faced by parties in the minority -- tension between those who want a return to the party's ideological roots and those who want candidates most likely to win in their districts.
He seems to think that this so-called "strategy" is a sensible one, a winning one, and is being "threatened" by the demands of the ideological extreme.
Sigh.
This conventional wisdom has been proven so wrong so many times in so many ways, by so many people that it's amazing that anyone who can read a cereal box still believes it.
We have to be vigilant against this false and self-defeating notion. We will hear it from friends, opponents, and certainly Party leadership. But, ultimately the GOP will learn to stand for conservatism, or it will go the way of the Whigs.
And honestly, I almost think it would be easier to create a new Conservative Party from scratch than to clean out the Augean Stable that is the Republican party
wtp
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