http://www.frumforum.com/the-problem-with-centrism-for-moderation%e2%80%99s-sake Building a conservatism that can win again Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:50:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.frumforum.com/the-problem-with-centrism-for-moderation%e2%80%99s-sake/comment-page-1#comment-82161 Republicans United. » Moderate Republicanism is Anything But Bland Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:30:58 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=21800#comment-82161 [...] E.D. Kain’s latest post which is itself a retort of David Frum’s post on the need for moderates in the GOP to become active again misreads what moderate Republicans are all about. In some cases it seems like Kain confuses “centrism” and “moderation” to mean a Republican that aims toward a bland middle of the road view. However, history shows us that Moderate Republicans are a real faction in the history of the GOP with real values and positions various issues from civil rights to the environment. One only has to read some of the Geoffrey Kabaservice’s wonderful profiles on forgotten Moderate Republicans like Thomas Dewey, Thomas Curtis, and Arthur Larson to know that moderates in the GOP were anything but milquetoast. [...] [...] E.D. Kain’s latest post which is itself a retort of David Frum’s post on the need for moderates in the GOP to become active again misreads what moderate Republicans are all about. In some cases it seems like Kain confuses “centrism” and “moderation” to mean a Republican that aims toward a bland middle of the road view. However, history shows us that Moderate Republicans are a real faction in the history of the GOP with real values and positions various issues from civil rights to the environment. One only has to read some of the Geoffrey Kabaservice’s wonderful profiles on forgotten Moderate Republicans like Thomas Dewey, Thomas Curtis, and Arthur Larson to know that moderates in the GOP were anything but milquetoast. [...]

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