September 16, 2011 1:23PM # Malcolm Wallop, RIP By [Tim Lynch](https://www.cato.org/people/tim-lynch) --- SHARE Former U.S. senator Malcolm Wallop (R‑Wyoming) passed away on Wednesday at age 78. The *Washington Post* [obit](http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/malcolm-wallop-three-term-republican-senator-from-wyoming-dies-at-78/2011/09/15/gIQAVUlMVK_story.html) for him has a quote from one of his Cato appearances: > Sen. Wallop was unapologetically conservative as a Republican, a position that sometimes drew ire from members of his own party. > > > “Too many Republicans prefer to be a Democrat Lite,” he said in a speech at the Cato Institute in 1994. “As any beer connoisseur can tell you, Lite is a tasteless, repugnant concoction.” Way before the Tea Party came along, he penned a scathing and wide-ranging critique of the expansive growth of the federal government in the February 1994 issue of *National Review*, “Can Conservatives Take America Back?” That article is well worth rereading. Unfortunately, no on-line link seems to be available, but perhaps that will change soon. Wallop also spoke out against federal power-grabs that came in [antiterrorism packaging](https://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/cpr-18n6-5.html). ##### Related Tags [Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).