Watching Matt's diavlog (wow, I never actually thought I'd type that word, but look! There it is!) I noticed that he finds absurd the idea--often floated by Republicans--that the GOP lost the Congress in 2006 because of their terrible addiction to pork. Why, he asks, do so many Republicans seem to believe this?
I don't think any Republicans, save for perhaps the most ideologically old-school and rigid of the lot, actually do believe this. Think of it as of a piece with the Harry Truman phenomenon I wrote about yesterday: It just sounds nicer to say "we have become less like Ronald Reagan" than to say "we are irremediably corrupt and responsible for a disastrous war, too."
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