California GOP
Re “State Republicans Pick Conservative Leader,” March 1: Is it not a curious twist on Barry Goldwater’s praise of extremism in defense of liberty that state GOP leaders now define being a “moderate” as too extreme for them?
MICHAEL D. REAGAN
Riverside
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John McGraw, the new state GOP chairman, said that the party had to “get back on message and be a party that gets the message out.” Alas, he couldn’t say what that message should be.
In case he’s still up a tree on the message, I have a suggestion: Take his cue from either of the brothers Bush or one of several other savvy GOP governors. But that would be asking a lot from a party that has so much in common with the Flat Earth Society.
DICK LEWIS
Balboa
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