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Looking Past the Party Label

By on 11.6.09 @ 11:11AM

Today in the Politico, I make the case that the ineffectual Democratic supermajority proves conservatives were right to choose loyalty to ideas over party loyalty in New York's 23rd congressional district. Yes, you need a big tent with some diversity of opinion to assemble a majority. But if your tent is too big to govern or implement your agenda, your majority is meaningless.

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W. James Antle, III is associate editor of The American Spectator. You can follow him on Twitter at http://Twitter.com/Jimantle.

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