Pull up a chair. From David Frum: Cruz has repeatedly argued that - TopicsExpress



          

Pull up a chair. From David Frum: Cruz has repeatedly argued that “true conservatives” win presidential elections and “moderates” lose. There’s a lot of jiggery-pokery in this claim: it leans pretty heavily on the idea that George H. W. Bush counted as a “true conservative” in 1988 but had lost caste by 1992. And was George W. Bush really more conservative than Bob Dole? But never mind! That’s the attitude millions of Republican primary voters will carry into the booths with them. The 2013 outcomes will not change their minds. It will only confirm their grim suspicion that their defeats are the works of their own party leaders, doing their treacherous work at the behest of a secretive party establishment. They’ll continue to feel that the cause of “true conservatism” needs only one more big push. They’ll continue to resent, mistrust, and despise those Republican leaders who tell them it won’t work. Nothing happened on Tuesday night to cause them to change their minds if they don’t want to. And they emphatically do not want to.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 22:05:59 +0000

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