Bold emphasis is my own:
The failure of conservative voters to fall in line behind Mr. Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity, among others, reflects a deeper problem for the movement’s leadership. With their inflexibility, grudge-holding and eagerness to evict heretics rather than seek converts, too many of conservatism’s leaders sound like the custodians of a dwindling religious denomination or a politically correct English department at a fading liberal-arts college.
Ross Douthat, New York Times.
(Douthat also blogs at The Atlantic).
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diane vespa
// Feb 10, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Didn’t quite follow this post, but I will say that I expect Mr. Limbaugh to support the Republican nominee, John McCain, or he will lose a faithful listener. His suggestion that he knows whats best for the country more than the millions who voted for McCain in the primaries is downright insulting!
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Anon E. Mouse
// Feb 10, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Funny, let me just change a few words…
The failure of voters to fall in line behind the *liberal media* among others, reflects a deeper problem for the movement’s leadership. With their inflexibility, grudge-holding and eagerness to evict heretics rather than seek converts, too many of *the democratic party* leaders sound like the custodians of a dwindling religious denomination or a politically correct English department at a fading liberal-arts college.
…that would have read for the other party 8 or even 4 years ago. I could easily argue that it fit HRC’s campaign as little as 6-8 months ago.
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Knight in Dragonland
// Feb 11, 2008 at 6:04 am
The “grudge-holding and eagerness to evict heretics” STILL fits with Hillary Clinton’s campaign. I wouldn’t say inflexibility, though. HYPER flexibility is more like it. The Clintons (and Mitt Romney … and Aaron Schock … and many, many others in both parties) are windsock politicians. Their views (at least their public views) blow wherever their focus groups and polls tell them to go. Then they try to nudge-nudge, wink-wink out of their public statements by whispering to their base “we’re really with you on issue x. We just can’t say so because we’ll alienate group y.”
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Mazr
// Feb 18, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Someone called Rush and asked him if McCain gets the nomination will he be supporting him and would he expect the dittoheads to follow. Rush’s response was “How am I supposed to answer that, too much could happen between now and then (whatever that means). What is this “Try and trick the Host” day? I’ve been around way too long for that”.
I actually thought it was a pretty good question.
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