was even worse than you let on, David. Pro-choice Republicans are not invariably “civil, well-balanced people”; they aren’t even more civil and well-balanced than pro-life Republicans. And the effect of the Goldwater rout in 1964 wasn’t, in fact, a rebirth of Rockefeller Republicanism. But it’s nice to know where the guy is coming from.
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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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