(With apologies to Roger and Moses for the title.)
Back in 2006, Jonah Goldberg described whom the media decides is an acceptable conservative or Republican:
Here’s a short rule of thumb for how to tell who is a “respectable” conservative in the eyes of liberals: any conservative out of power or not seen as supportive of those in power. An even shorter rule of thumb would be: conservatives are respectable if they are useful to liberals. Pat Buchanan became respectable, even adorable, among a loose coalition of liberals leftists, from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews to Ralph Nader, when he turned on the GOP establishment. Kevin Phillips, David Gergen and John Dean have been “real” Republicans — though rarely conservatives — for decades because they are willing to confirm the assumptions of liberals.
Found via a “jealous” Kathy Shaidle, Kyle Smith asks, tongue firmly in cheek, where do I sign up?!
Update: Many more links from Robert Stacy McCain, including what Stace describes as The Mother of All Smackdowns, courtesy of Michelle Malkin.
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1. David Thomson:Uncle Tom Republicans are well compensated. I have read Ross Douthat’s most recent book, the coauthored Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream—and it is nothing more than watered down, “big government” Republicanism. I dread to think what he will write as a columnist of the New York Times.
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