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November 19, 2008 2:40 PM
Call it a political intervention
Posted by Lance Dickie
A columnist for the British news magazine, The Economist, has delivered a finger-wagging lecture to the Republican Party that anyone who seriously prefers the GOP ought to read.
The writer, with the byline Lexington, is apoplectic about the dumbing down the party's brand, values and message. He measures the decline in decades and sees the absolute nadir in the 2008 presidential campaign.
His unsparing prose invites questions about time and distance. Is a commentator from across the pond too far away to count, or does that separation provide perspective and detachment that allows him to write the truth? He intervening to stir rehabilitation, not dance on a grave.
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