It's not just his book, America Alone. It's because he puts together sentences like the following:
Meanwhile, over in the other [Democratic] tent, they celebrate diversity with ruthless singlemindedness: In the Democrats’
parade, whatever your bugbear, government is the answer. Government is
the means, government is the end, government is the whole magilla. That
gives them a unity of purpose the GOP can never match.
And yet and yet . . . Last November, even with the GOP’s fiscal
profligacy, even with the financial sector’s “October surprise,” even
with a cranky old coot of a nominee unable to articulate any rationale
for his candidacy or even string together a coherent thought on the
economy, even with a running mate subjected to brutal character
assassination in nothing flat, even running against a charming,
charismatic media darling
of historic significance, even facing the
natural cycle of a two-party system, the washed-up loser no-hoper side
managed to get 46 percent of the vote. . .
Here's more:
All things considered, the resilience of American conservatism
is one of the most remarkable features of contemporary Western
politics. It’s up against significant members of its own party. It’s up
against media for whom the Democrats’ positions are the default positions on almost anything that matters. . .
The aim of a large swathe of the Left is not to win the debate
but to get it canceled before it starts. You can do that in any number
of ways: busting up campus appearances by conservatives, “hate speech”
prohibitions, activist judges’ more imaginative court decisions, or
merely, as the Times does, by declaring your side of every
issue to be the “moderate” and “nonideological” position — even when,
in many cases, the “extreme” position is supported by a majority of
voters. Likewise, to Colin Powell, it’s Ann Coulter who’s “vicious,”
not Michael Moore, who compares the jihadists who blow up Western
troops in Iraq to America’s Minutemen and gets rewarded with a seat
next to Jimmy Carter in the presidential box at the Democratic
convention. . .
But, when the going gets tough, you don’t, as General Powell
advises, “move toward the center.” You move the center toward you, as
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did. It’s harder to do it that way,
but if it’s a choice between more government and more taxes, or more
liberty and more opportunity, I’ll stick with the latter, and so should
the Republican party — however difficult it is. . .