Republicans Lose Way by Misreading Bush History: Ramesh Ponnuru
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Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) -- In 2006 and 2008, voters inflictedon Republicans the worst back-to-back electoral drubbing anyparty has received since the Great Depression, when FranklinDelano Roosevelt all but destroyed the Party of Hoover.Republicans quickly reached a consensus about why they lost sobadly: They had failed to be sufficiently Republican.
This consensus still moves the party -- and since it isfalse, it moves them to make mistakes.