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Michael Steele’s Phony Hospitality
The Moderate Voice — ... “All you moderates out there, y’all come. I mean, that’s the message,” Steele said at a news conference. “The message of this party is this is a big table for everyone to have a seat. I have a place setting with your name on the front. “Understand that when you come into someone’s house, you’re not looking to change it. You come in because that’s the place you want to be.” Blogger Rick Moran notes what happens when you come into the GOP house and actually do say something: ...

The ghost of Noonan past
Patterico's Pontifications — ... by grass roots protests against the spend-and-tax extremism of the Obama Administration.  Moran also claims moderates are being purged from the party by those social con meanies on talk radio and the Internet.  In the real world, the GOP got the political exhaustion represented by the “kinder, gentler” G.H.W. Bush, the “compassionate” G.W. Bush, Maverick John McCain and an out of touch Congressional GOP.  One wonders what sort of party the Morans would build if fiscal cons and social cons are just too icky and mean. ...