The Twitchiest Voice in the GOP’s Grassroots Will Make Sure the Party Never Rebrands
How Salem Communications and their rage-a-holics PWN the GOP.
The troubling aspect of this power for the GOP is that Malkin’s agenda doesn’t always align with what the party wants or needs. And when it doesn’t, she has no compunction about turning the mob behind her against members of her own party.
She’s obsessively focused on fighting Common Core, an attempt to nationalize K-12 educational standards largely embraced by Republican governors and championed by Jeb Bush. Her critiques and mockery have helped make opposing the initiative an article of faith for the Tea Party movement.
Malkin is also fiercely opposed to any immigration reform that would legalize undocumented workers. Her savaging of Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) for working with Democrats on a reform bill maimed the political prospects of a man some were calling “The Republican Savior.”
“He’s dug himself into a hole and he can’t get himself out,” she said on Fox & Friends in August. “So he has resorted to rather desperate, silly, and may I add craven rationales for sticking with his disaster.”