Tuesday, September 14, 2010

O’Donnell’s Victory and What It Means

John Podhoretz "The presumption among delighted people on the Left-liberal side is that all this roil on the Right suggests a party in disarray and a movement intent on cannibalizing itself. That’s one way to look at it. The other is that the GOP is actually expanding and seizing the populist mood that seems to be the national direction –  even though the GOP leadership, especially in the Senate, is finding the whole business unnerving and destructive."

Tea Party candidates mostly did well, which should help pull the GOP back to its roots. "Tea Party candidates mostly did well, which is mostly to the good in my opinion. If the flurry and fighting that ended Tuesday represented a “war for the soul of the Republican Party” as the mainstream media is fond of saying, here’s the silver lining: at least the GOP still has a soul worth fighting for."

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