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Jim Geraghty says that being in the minority isn't so bad: "I think almost everyone sensed there is something liberating about being in a position of opposition; you no longer have to hold your tongue or take it easy on a figure like Bush, McCain, or congressional leaders because they're your guys. On every bill, issue, and event that comes down the pike, you can call them as you see them."

That's all very true. But maybe we'd be better off if we always did this, even when "our guys" are in power.

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Captain America| 11.17.08 @ 10:08PM

Very true. Stand for something or stand for nothing.

J David| 11.18.08 @ 8:55AM

If we had been doing it right along, like happened when El Presidente Jorge Boosh tried the Harriet Meiers thing, or the Amnesty thing, a good many things anathema to *conservatives* of true stripe would not have happened, and the GOP wouldn't be a RINO machine oblivious to its supposed constituents. That is what the Punditocracy originally was meant to do, before it got bought off by the MSM with face time for being "correct" and "compassionate", and "bi-partisan"(surrender monkeys to the commie-lib Dems).

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