From Politico: “Conservatives target their own fringe”
Erickson has advised new tea party organizers on how to avoid affiliations with extremists, and this month banned birthers – conservatives who believe that Obama was not born in the United States and is, therefore, ineligible to be President – from his blog (he has long blacklisted truthers, those who believe that the U.S. government was complicit in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks – a conspiracy theory with devotees across the political spectrum).
“At some point, you have to use the word ‘crazy,’” said Erickson.
Hat Tip: Bruce Bartlett
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Doesn’t CATO kind of do the same thing? Attack the fringe of the libertarian fringe.
No, the Cato Institute does not. I do something like that (i.e., criticizing non-libertarian collectivists who seek to masquerade as libertarians), on my personal website, but no Cato Institute publications do anything of the sort. Cato offers, in a positive manner, a principled, reasoned, and intelligent libertarianism to the public.
That link doesn’t work.
Whoa! Fixed now.