Needed For GOP: Sweet Reasonableness

dick morris

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Dickie boy gets it wrong again.  If there's anyone who looked unreasonable here, it was Obama and the Democrats.  You don't win by acting weak.  In an argument with a wolf, the lamb always loses---force has the better of an argument, no matter how good the argument.  The GOP has to upgrade itself from the lamb arguing with the wolf, to something more on an equal footing.  Weakness always loses.  Being reasonable is being weak if you cave in on principle.  The GOP looks weak on principle.  The Democrat's principle is always bigger government.  They will fight for that.  On the other hand, the GOP will not fight for the basic principles---if one of those principles is limited government.  How can they possibly convince anybody of this when they cave in that way?

Politics ain't beanbag and it ain't a beauty contest.  It's not necessarily nice, so you have to be tough when it is necessary.  The GOP is soft.  You can be assured that people have taken notes and this is what they see.  Anything like this that Morris argues for is nothing but an illusion.  These people are kidding themselves.