Will we look back on Dede Scozzafava's dropping out as the historic end to moderate Republicans?
I tend to look at the retirement of Mark Hatfield, Nancy Kassebaum, Alan Simpson and Howard Baker as the end of moderate Republicanism. That there are a small number of hangers-on, like maybe Dave Reichart in Washington, is sometimes a healing balm for those of us who are aged enough to remember the good old days. But a Reichart here and a Snowe there doesn't amount to much of a movement or bloc.
And these days, I'm not all that sure even about Snowe.
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