Why Right journos must test conservative candidates

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“You are a disgrace to conservatism…For some demented reason, you are trying to destroy a conservative candidate, be he Cain or Gingrich, or whomever.” This sort of email comes in frequently nowadays. So do the angry tweets. That’s because it’s primary season.

“Our job,” one writer asserts, actually referring to our job, “is to defend people, regardless of their flaws.”

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