Just Say No

(Community Matters) Also from Mike Allen:

E.J. Dionne Jr. in the WaPo, “Why won’t the GOP say ‘no’ to extremism?”: “What’s missing from the Democrats’ campaign is a willingness to raise the stakes of the election. … The principled case that must be made is that the brand of conservatism seeking power this year is irresponsible, incoherent and untrue to the best of its own traditions. … But there is something far more troubling at work: the rise of an angry, irrational extremism — the sort that says Obama is a Muslim socialist who wasn’t born in the United States — that was not part of Ronald Reagan’s buoyant conservative creed. … What the current right has on offer is far worse than anything Bush put forward … A victory for this style of conservatism will be a defeat for the kind of conservatism the country needs.” http://bit.ly/aq5ekL