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Funny: I’ll believe that Bruce Bartlett is serious about helping the GOP recover…

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 31st, 2009 at 09:50 AM  | 

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…when it takes me less than ten minutes to track down his Congressional District (VA-10, Frank Wolf) or his local party apparatus (Fairfax County GOP).  Neither of which is particularly mentioned in his bio page, although a link to his book slamming President Bush is.  Prominently.  Where it’s the first thing that you can see, really.

This is fronted (via Instapundit) because this is the problem: we have lists and lists of people who want some nebulous Little Red Hen to fix their pet problem with the GOP.  Fixing the problems themselves?  Not so much.

Moe Lane

PS: Sure, you can join next year, Bartlett. Just don’t expect to be given a task more involved than “make a sign to bring”…wow.  Can you even imagine Bruce Bartlett standing on a street corner, waving a homemade sign around and encouraging people to honk if they’re tired of the government spending too much of their money?  No, neither can I.

Which is more or less my point.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • WarEagle01

    Just when things are starting to look (a tiny bit) up for the GOP, we get another one of these has-beens telling us how we need to start acting more like Democrats. Gee, thanks for the help Bruce. Don’t call us. We’ll call you.

  • ti_bab

    Last line from Mr. Bartlett’s article is best: “That?s why I wrote my Wrong on Race book, which no one read.” After reading his editorial, I doubt that I’ll be reading the book any time soon. I don’t know if the Republicans can win without people like Mr. Bartlett? He doesn’t think so. But is he sure they can win without people like me?

  • RedBeard

    …whining about the Republican Party and constructively working to populate it with principled conservatives. Bartlett is whining.

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  • tominkorea

    Never heard of him.

  • http://online.logcabin.org/about/ suzieQ

    I don’t see why the GOP needs to “recover”. With Nobama’s numbers falling daily, and people who are tired of being taxed into the poor house, it is definitely not the GOP that needs to “recover”.

  • Brian Faughnan

    is Bartlett’s comment that the party needs to reach out to people like him.

    Is there anyone that doesn’t want the party to reach out to him/her? I really care about the competitive balance in baseball, but I think it’s unfair for people to propose a solution that penalizes owners who’ve been willing to lay out real money to improve their teams. I want a solution that helps the DC Nationals, without hurting the NY Yankees.

    And until the Republican party reaches out to people like *ME,* there’s no way it can be competitive nationally. Unless the Democrats really screw up. (It’s important I give myself some cover.)

  • skorrent1

    People should “reach out to” the local GOP and make it into a dynamic organization that attracts people with enthusiasm. Let’s stop sitting back and waiting for the Party to “reach out to” us.

  • peg_c

    upon finding the link on Instapundit, then remembered why I wrote Bartlett off as an idiot a few years ago. Why was Glenn linking this?, I thought. Frum clone is right; just read his piece on Colin Powell. Bartlett says Powell needs to become the leader the Republicans need. POWELL VOTED FOR OBAMA!! Has Bartlett been lobotomized?

    And please someone shoot me if Powell ever becomes a Republican leader. OMFG.

  • Ausonius

    who worked in the Reagan and Bush I Administrations, but who has become infected with D.C.-itis.

    Bartlett correctly criticized W. Bush for not following conservative economic principles, so that he could attract left-wing voters.

    However, he has recently contradicted his earlier conservative principles, blaming the entire recession and banking crisis on W. Bush without mentioning Messrs. B. Frank, C. Dodd, et al. as sharing responsibility after 2006.

    A recent book examines the supposed failure of Reaganomics, This quote for “The New American Economy” tells you everything

    “”Bruce Bartlett is right. The welfare state isn?t disappearing. And if Republicans continue to try to roll it back the by using tax cuts to ?starve the beast? or trying to privatize Social Security and Medicare, they?re history. Wise thoughts from one of the creators of Reaganomics who has seen the light.”–Robert Reich, Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley ”

    See:

    http://www.amazon.com/New-American-Economy-Failure-Reaganomics/dp/0230615872/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251758202&sr=1-1

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    I couldn’t shower enough after.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    It’s the embattled Obama administration that needs to recover.

  • bc3

    Like Ed Rollins and Peggy Noonan, Bruce Bartlett hasn’t been relevant for more than 20 years, but they all make big bucks and are the toast of “insider” cocktail parties for bashing conservatives.