Tired dogmas

The Detroit Free Press on Sundays has a page they title Extra Points. They print a half-dozen or so quotes from a variety of sources -- public figures, pundits in other papers and magazines -- about current topics. There are a couple that appeared today:

Pal around together? What does that mean? Share a milkshake with two straws?

That one is by Bill Ayers, the guy Palin was using to tar Obama as a terrorist. If you haven't followed that news, Ayers was a '60 radical (as the Freep calls him) and is now a college professor.

Then…

Welcome to "Republican Rock Bottom."

Possessed of no vision, not principle, no purpose, and no appeal, we deserved our fate.

Now seize freedom!

Finally, we are divorced from self-deceits. Dead is the self-indulgent imbecility of "rebranding" -- as if the Republican Party was a corporate product to be repackaged, not a transformational political movement to be led. Despite what the media will tell you, and what so-called "conservative leaders" will discuss ad nauseam during "secret" meetings, this situation is not a crisis. It is an opportunity. Today, we are … unbound by the tired dogmas of the past; and free to think and act anew. (ellipses in the original)

Since I've seen several articles lately about the GOP losing because it wasn't conservative enough and that it should champion the social conservative goals of banning abortion and gays (since that was an issue that won), it is a breath of fresh air that someone in the GOP agrees their ideas are bankrupt and they need to overhaul what they stand for.

Then I saw who wrote it: Thaddeus McCotter, my district's GOP representative to the US House who just won re-election by about 55%, and who I've described in the past as a Bush lapdog. I hear my irony meter going off.