Those who seek to understand why the GOP has lost three special congressional elections in 2008 in supposedly solidly Republican districts should read Peggy Noonan’s column in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

The former Reagan speechwriter notes a quote from a Republican leader regarding the latest of the losses and adds a sharp retort that gets to the heart of why the party of Goldwater and Reagan is in its death throes as an effective vehicle of conservative reform:

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