Not Really

So, a new GOP think tank that wants to be a "Center for American Progress for the right":

As John McCain ’s top domestic and economic policy adviser during last year’s presidential campaign, Douglas Holtz-Eakin got a firsthand look at the broad problems the Republican Party now faces: a shrinking base, a narrowing appeal among different demographic groups and an inability — in his view — to generate fresh ideas or effectively sell the ones it has.

In the wake of another chastening set of GOP defeats at the polls, Holtz-Eakin is now setting out to address those problems head-on. He’s developing a proposal for a new think tank that he describes as a “Center for American Progress for the right” — a reference to the liberal think tank that has supplied staff and policy proposals to the Obama administration and developed new ways to market its ideas.

I don't know, from the article it sounds more like Heritage-lite. Which is fine, but not truly emulating CAP. If they want to really do that, they need to launch a right equivalent to Think Progress. That would mean a website that would be brutal and relentless in demonizing Obama in particular and Democrats in general. One that would distort words and deeds in clever ways that leave the reader thinking libelous thoughts, without the website actually committing libel. And never, ever, give the opposition ANY credit. All bad, all the time.

In short, create the GOP's own reality-based community useful idiots.

Or maybe the GOP could finally wake up and just actually fight the lies and distortions from the left instead of ignoring them. Sort of an anti-Think Progress that takes every post and rips it for the extreme rhetoric that it is bound to contain. If Holtz-Eakin really understands what CAP has done, he will understand the role that Think Progress plays in serving raw meat, tainted but effective raw meat, to the masses on the left. The right does not need to emulate that, but it does need to counter it and discredit that poison in an organized way. I'm not holding my breath.