Peter Wehner at Commentary castigates radio hosts like Tom Marr for insisting on ideological purity:
Tom Marr is a conservative radio talk show host from Baltimore. While driving yesterday I listened to Marr, who was substituting for a national talk host. In the course of the program Marr said that Governor Mitch Daniels was a “fake” conservative. (So too, he added with certainty, is Governor Chris Christie.) Marr didn’t simply disagree with Daniels; he was dripping with contempt for him. At one point Marr asked “Did Ronald Reagan ever ask for a ‘truce’ on social issues, Governor Daniels?”
Wehner points out that Marr's stance would've have eliminated Ronald Reagan:
The very purity test that Marr wants to impose on Daniels would have disqualified Reagan. That fact alone should give a moment’s pause to Marr and others who think like him.
Marr was substituting for Levin and I suppose that Wehner isn't up to calling Levin out by name.
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