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Michael Tomasky: GOP Attracting Minorities? Really?

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jaunte1/24/2013 3:43:07 pm PST

“cynical, selective interest in fiscal responsibility”

Why the GOP Could Be in the Wilderness For a Long Time

“…The weaknesses don’t stop there. The GOP wants to be perceived as the party of limited, constitutional government, but it just went through the better part of a decade expanding the size and intrusiveness of government, and it supported practices of illegal detention and illegal surveillance to boot. With depressingly few exceptions, the party hasn’t repudiated any of the latter, and there appears to be no urgency in reversing or undoing any of the damage done by these things. Having trashed almost everything that their party was supposed to represent, many Republican leaders act as if the worst thing that ever happened during the Bush years was a profusion of earmarks. Until they stop kidding or lying to themselves about what happened the last time there was unified Republican government, it’s doubtful that the public will be willing to entrust them with that much power.”

In which Daniel Larison manages to run through a litany of GOP weaknesses without once mentioning the racist elephant in the room.