Brendan Nyhan

The puzzling conservative GM boycott

I don’t understand the idea of a conservative boycott of GM. To the extent that it works, it will increase the odds that the firm will need more government cash and decrease the likelihood of the government quickly selling its stake back into the private sector — precisely the opposite of what conservatives would presumably want to see happen.

Update 6/9 11:08 PM: The link above goes to a TPM DC story that apparently mischaracterizes Rush Limbaugh’s position on the boycott. Hugh Hewitt’s support for it, however, seems well-established.