Now at The Union Leader of Manchester, former Carolina Journal editor and long-time Locke staff member Andrew Cline got Rush Limbaugh and the GOP’s attention with his blistering editorials on how the party of Reagan has forsaken its limited-government roots for me-too big-government pandering.

Limbaugh discussed Drew’s editorials on his show yesterday and grilled Ed Gillespie, the chairman of the Republican National Committee whose visit to the Union Leader sparked Drew’s column, on what he said about the GOP’s Democrat-Lite positions on fiscal responsibility.