This was the man they once called “Mr. Conservative” who is now being held up as the paragon of moderation. To paraphrase Woody Allen: a moderate Republican is a right-wing reactionary plus time.- From Corey Robin's appraisal of a New York Times op-ed in which Senator Robert Taft's grandson tried to recast the old man as a Republican moderate.
As Waldo has noted before, Taft weren't cut from that kinda cloth. The John Birch Society doesn't love on moderates.
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