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Mark Schmitt: “[T]he moderate Republicans were losers not because they were moderates, but because they were the truest partisans in recent American politics. They were not ideologues, but the opposite. They put loyalty to party, right or wrong, over their other commitments. Even though many of them eventually switched parties, they almost never leveraged the threat of exit from the party to get their way, whereas conservative Democrats, then and now, always seem to have one foot out the door. Republicans like Specter switched parties only when they realized they had no chance of beating a primary challenge. Rule and Ruin is a wonderful reminder of what was once—not very long ago—a vital tradition in American politics. But it also establishes without a doubt that its subjects have no one but themselves to blame for their downfall.” http://www.tnr.com/book/review/moderate-republicans-rule-ruin-geoffrey-kabaservice
