| Getting to NO: The Republican Dilemma in the Obama Age
Boyer, Peter J.
The New Yorker, September 28, 2009, v85, #30, pp32-36
This article discusses "the Republican dilemma in the age of Obama. [...] Opposition can unify and exhilarate an out party, as Democrats proved earlier this decade, and it is a primal conservative impulse. [...] The question remaining for many Republicans is whether the Party can develop a strategy beyond opposition, an argument for governing that will expand its appeal beyond its ideological core. On this, Toomey finds himself in agreement with Arlen Specter. "Having thirty principled Republicans doesn't accomplish anything, and that's not acceptable," he told me. "Our mission, and our focus, has to be to find a way to bring people into our tent."
Peter J. Boyer is a staff writer for The New Yorker.
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C6/06-09. Posted October 16, 2009
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