Evan Thomas Quotes

Barry Goldwater made conservatism so unattractive I wouldn't have voted for it myself.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.

People ask me about if, being a Republican, you guys want to cut everything and stop everything and not help people. I find that patently false.

While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying.

The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

Dave Camp has been very much influenced by, and often guided by, the radicalization of the Republican Party... and too often failed to speak out.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

We know that the far left and their media allies can't beat us on the issues, so instead they'll distort our records. Let's not do the job for them, OK, Republicans? OK, independents?

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith.

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

I do not think that the social conservative movement have the ability to elect a President but they have the ability to block.

Nothing so marks Republicans as their genius for organizing, and their take-no-prisoners approach to problems that Democrats leave to chance.

By catering ever more abjectly to the noisy, reactionary extremists of our party who are determined to impose their sectarian views and morality on the rest of us, the GOP’s vulnerability among moderate voters, particularly women, continues to intensify.

I used to think that James Kilpatrick and Barry Goldwater were really conservative, but now we’ve got people to the right of them. They want to use government to be punitive.

George W. Bush … was ideologically obsessed.

A Republican Party without moderates was like a heavily muscled body without a head.

I was raised a Republican but I don’t recognize a once proud party that has been hijacked by extremists who are driving it off the flat earth that they pretend we are living on.