WASHINGTON, April 9, 2013 — Perhaps Bob Dylan put it best: “The times, they are a-changin’.” That’s the lesson the Republican Party doesn’t seem to have yet learned, mired as they are in the 1980s when President Reagan was in the White House and “all was well with the world.” President Reagan called for a Big Tent party back then, but the Reagan tent had a narrow entrance and even a narrower one now: social issues. If you can’t squeeze through it, a Republican presidential candidate hasn’t a prayer of support. Even poor Mitt Romney couldn’t flip-flop fast enough to satisfy the wedge issue wing of the GOP. Republican logo The...
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