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April 13th, 2006

Republicans and the Tory

Over at the Tory’s new blog, they’re asking:

Do we have any (preliminary) preferences for the ‘08 Republican candidate? McCain, Frist, Tancredo, Rice, Giuliani, Sen. George Allen (R-VA), Sen. Brownback (R-KS), Mitt Romney, Chuck Hagel? Personally, I’d like someone with a Reaganesque determination to limit the growth of the Federal Government…a determination our current President does not have.

It’s important to highlight the use of “we” here- the conflation of the interests of the Tory and the Republican Party. In Juergen’s phrasing, there’s really no difference between them. Also, is it not true that almost all of the Tory’s leadership are members of Princeton’s College Republicans as well? One then should ask, why should I read the Tory when I can just read Ken Mehlman’s better written, more concise, and more professional press releases? Either way, we’re just getting the views of a bunch of Republicans, so why read the inferior articulation offered by the Tory? The point is that the Tory makes no genuinely new, creative, or interesting contribution to the political discussion. I can get the exact same opinions and views- only more informed and more elegantly articulated- from Mehlman’s website. Of course, you can’t ask a similar question of this magazine because the PPN makes absolutely no pretenses to be a mouthpiece of the Democratic (or any other) political party. Maybe the Tory should be saving some trees; oh wait . . . I guess the idea of ‘editorial independence’ is as much of a foreign concept among young conservative “journalists” as integrity itself.

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