Texas-Sized Lesson: The New Tone Era Is Over

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The bottom line is that the new tone [of 'reaching across isles' and 'big tent party'] was never called for by Americans.

To think so was to be rather tone-deaf. Any strategy based on the assumption that people just could not get along -- and ignores the possibility of legitimate and deep ideological divides -- misses the point.

By definition, the new tone more or less meant not debating your opponents very vigorously before compromising with them on almost everything.

It's the message of Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. It is a conservative message of less government, less taxation, less regulation, and more freedom. It is a message about soundly defeating anyone who would stand in the way of that message, and not of "working with them."

... it is deliciously ironic that her own beloved Texans, along with Palin, were the ones to deliver that message. The new tone, which came home to roost with Obama's election in November of 2008, is now officially dead. KBH had better heed the message, as should any Republican who wants to be on the right side of history in 2010...

[2nd point: according to the MSM, Palin's death to anyone she touches - but she's 3-1 re: major endorsements...

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