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December 12, 2012 11:09 AM The Octopus With a Thousand Tentacles
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At NRO, Jim Geraghty has an unintentionally hilarious interview with RNC chairman Reince Priebus in which the party chief pledges a frantic effort to look everywhere for ways to improve the party’s appeal—everywhere, that is, other than ideology, the Big Taboo no one is supposed to address.
In an especially creepy metaphor, Priebus calls the new party-fixing Growth and Opportunity Project (composed of such deep thinkers as Ari Fleischer and Henry Barbour) as “an octopus with a thousand tentacles.”