Reihan Salam has a piece...

...in the Daily Beast, "Long Live the GOP!," in which he argues that "the GOP is poised for a dramatic comeback." The article is such a muddled mess that it's hard to know where to begin. I think Salam himself put it best when he said, "This could be wishful thinking on my part."

The little box on the home page of the Daily Beast has a split screen of Sarah Palin and David Cameron with the caption, "Who Said Conservatism Was Dead?" Let's start here because Cameron's "victory" in Britain is hardly cause for celebration among tea partiers in the U. S. Cameron only made the Tories competitive in the U. K. by moving toward the center, not the right. To give you one glaring example, Andrew Sullivan noted yesterday that the Conservatives have eleven openly gay members of Parliament. Eleven. Can you imagine anything like that in the Republican Party?

Someone said recently that while Palin would be laughed out of Britain, Cameron would be kicked out of the Republican Party.

I think David Frum has it right:

...a party that does not offer practical solutions to workaday problems – that builds itself on a narrow social and ethnic base – and that is more excited by protest than by governance – will not be a success in either political or policy terms.