GOP needs to ‘drive a stake through old Dixie’

That’s the money quote from Kathleen Parker. And, the “flexibly conservative” columnist, who would be at least as good as Douthat on the NYT pages, says, he’s more right than wrong.

At the same time, she calls “hypocrisy alert” on folks like Voinovich:

Though Voinovich's views may be shared by others in the party, it's a tad late -- not to mention ungrateful -- to indict the South. Republicans have been harvesting Southern votes for decades from seeds strategically planted during the civil rights era.

It’s a good column; give it a read.