"Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country, I hold it as honorable to take a firm and decided part and as immoral to pursue a middle line, as between the parties of honest men and rogues, into which every country is divided."

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Rescue the GOP.

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

You don’t have to listen very hard to hear the refrain. Sen. Joe Biden will tell you you can’t get anything done without a consensus and that means ‘reaching across the aisle.’ The DLC will gladly wax poetic about the ‘vital center.’ David Broder promotes the Unity ‘08 approach. Ad nauseum. Everyone decries partisanship, divisiveness. […]