Thomas Frank Quotes

I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.

Nobody should be surprised that Republicans vote for Republican policy. Just like Democrats vote for Democrat policy.

What we need to do is bitch-slap the Republican Party. Get those guys heeding too, and if we have to, we’ll take it over to make it a true conservative party,

I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

The Republicans I know or the conservatives I know, they disagree with what the Republicans are doing in Washington because we are compromising too much.

Our adversaries - our Democratic adversaries - like to be able to portray the Republican Party as a bunch of wingnuts - narrow based, always have some agenda that's not attractive to the public... That's easier for them, and more fun, than dealing with their own problems. And I think their problems are significant.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

Republicans, Weed Out Your Progressives

I am so out of sympathy with what seems to be the prevailing currents of American opinion that I keep my judgment suspended as regards the political wisdom of certain [Republican] party moves

Bigger Than His Party.

I am not a Republican apologist.

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

People ask me about if, being a Republican, you guys want to cut everything and stop everything and not help people. I find that patently false.

While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat of the respectable Beltway variety and he will twist himself into a pretzel denying it.

Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

I'm always amused when the 'New York Times' writes editorials trying to be helpful to Republicans and say, 'This is the way Republicans can save themselves.' Look, the 'New York Times' disagrees with us. They're entitled to disagree with us, but it's not like we should take their advice.

Republicans have said much worse things about me than any Democrat ever has.