«In one corner, there are a large number of bright, mostly younger, self-styled reformers with a diverse – and often contradictory – set of proposals to win back middle-class voters and restore the GOP’s status as “the party of ideas” (as the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan put it). In another corner are self-proclaimed traditional conservatives and Reaganites, led most notably by Rush Limbaugh, who believe that the party desperately needs to get back to the basics: limited government, low taxes and strong defense. What is fascinating is that both camps seem implicitly to agree that the real challenge lurks in how to account for the Bush years. […] The irony is that both camps agree on a lot more than they disagree. The reformers are committed to market principles and reducing the size and role of government, and so are the back-to-basics crowd. The problem is that an elephant named George in the room is blocking each side from seeing what the other is all about. But hopefully not for much longer». Jonah Goldberg.
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