A GOP party leader for the future
(By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air) - Jeff Flake has long been a voice in the Republican wilderness, opposing profligate spending and big-government “conservatism”. Now that the entire GOP has been put into the wilderness, Flake takes to the pages of the Washington Post for a well-deserved round of I Told You So. More to the point, Flake draws the map for Republicans to return from their largely self-imposed exile from power.
posted by BP News Bureau | 3:30 PM
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As long as we Republicans are willing to admit our folly, get back to first principles and work like there's no tomorrow, we've got 'em just where we want 'em.
Yes, well there's the hard part, isn't it? I'm a confirmed cynic. I think the GOP will choose more of what poisoned the waters in the first place. We will see more calls from the neo-cons and pragmatists for even more Democrat-lite.
Count on it.
Sadly, you're probably right. Already, I'm hearing from the Beltway pundits that the GOP has to reach out to moderates & independents to win future elections. If that's the case, then McCain should have won in a landside. Instead, he got creamed.
Others were also saying that the immigration issue will haunt the GOP for a long time because Hispanics went overwhelmingly for Obama.
I like Jeff Flake... He's one of the good guys in Washington. If the GOP would have listened to people like Flake, we probably wouldn't be in this shape right now.
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