Your Blog Goliard has been catching up on some reading after spending a few days out of town; and when he got to Stephen Moore’s OpinionJournal piece from Sunday, he couldn’t resist banging on a bit on a favorite theme.

Moore questions “whether liberal Republicans will come to understand that in order to hold onto power it’s time for them to start helping conservative Republicans win general election races.” If they do, the realization has been a long time coming…at least 15 years, by my count. Perhaps the names Oliver North and Mike Farris ring a bell?

As this weblog never tires of pointing out, the biggest problem with RINOs and other Republican weak sisters—the President and his father very much included—is not that they disagree with conservatives, but that they also buy into the cosmopolitan Left world-view in which the Right is scary and backward and icky, and maybe more than a little evil as well. So it feels like virtue to them when they actively torpedo their own party’s nominees in the general election.

These characters are, of course, repaid for this disloyalty by having their incumbents backed to the hilt by the party machinery, even (especially?) in the primaries—e.g. Arlen Specter, Lincoln Chafee. No wonder they call the GOP the “stupid party”.