Uh, excuse me.
The column is about the unwillingness of the establishment to accept anyone who won’t do the go-along, get-along routine.
Sensible conservatives have bent plenty of times, and for decades have usually not gone after RINOs unless they crossed certain lines. Mike DeWine on ANWR and Gang of 14 was a big problem for me, but after a 2006 primary during which the ORP sent out a stalking horse candidate to marginalize a legitimate challenger, I still voted for DeWine against Sherrod Brown. I have no doubt that if the insurgent candidate had pulled off the long-shot upset, the ORP would have pretended he didn’t exist and guaranteed his loss (if properly funded and promoted, he would have had a better shot in the general than DeWine, even in 2006).
It’s the establishment that’s applying the litmus tests and acting like children, cfb.
