I didn’t catch Ingraham’s show, so I don’t know if the following point is pertinent to her comments, but it is pertinent to some of the emails I get from time to time: Of course every conservative owes Bill gratitude and respect. But our respect is misdirected if it leads us to refrain from engaging with him, which can include (respectful) criticism. He is still very much in the mix, he wants his words to count, and we pay him a kind of respect by sometimes disagreeing with him.

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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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