Thomas Frank Quotes

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

I do not want to see, for any reason, the Tories resurgent in any way.

Trump knows where his strengths exist, and he is emphatically in favor of doubling down on them. This goes far beyond appointing Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

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.

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

The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing.

The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts.

Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them.

I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one.

Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

Sometimes it's easier to attack the spouse than it is to attack the politician.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

I think if you look all across the country, the so-called Blue Dogs are all gone to kennel. There are no more Blue Dogs, they're called Republicans. People would rather elect consistently conservative Republicans than Blue Dogs, who are only conservative when it's convenient.

I'm not going to do anything that heralds in a Tory government.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.

There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.