18 June 2011

Radical, Not Moderate

The Republican presidential debate revealed how alarmingly far right the mainstream GOP has shifted.

By Eliot Spitzer
Posted Thursday, June 16, 2011, at 3:54 PM ET

The reaction to the first Republican presidential debate baffles me. Here you have the entire roster of candidates endorsing the new Republican orthodoxy—a Hooverism for the 21st century—and yet commentators are acting as though there is somehow a new moderation among the candidates. Even my own esteemed Slate colleague Jacob Weisberg penned a column headlined "Going Sane," arguing that we are seeing a shift toward the middle among the Republican candidates.

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