GET out your vocabulary cards, it’s timid-wimp-cave time again. Michael Reagan has quit the Republican Party and says that he won’t return until it “acts like a winner and not a loser.”
He was fairly temperate as conservative GOP-bashers go—and we go pretty far. He used “cave in” only once, eschewed the real Roget stuff like “pusillanimous,” and came nowhere near Wesley Pruden’s regular references to the “Gelded Age.” Still, his remarks pulsated with the unmistakable glee of the conservative scorned. Nothing gives us more pleasure than going after “moderate” Republicans as immoderately as possible. To air is human, to lambaste is divine.
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