PEGGY NOONAN: Bush destroyed the Republican Party...
(The Wall Street Journal) - On the pundit civil wars, Rush Limbaugh declared on the radio this week, "I'm here to tell you, if either of these two guys [Mr. McCain or Mike Huckabee] get the nomination, it's going to destroy the Republican Party. It's going to change it forever, be the end of it!"
This is absurd. George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues.
Were there other causes? Yes, of course. But there was an immediate and essential cause.
And this needs saying, because if you don't know what broke the elephant you can't put it together again. The party cannot re-find itself if it can't trace back the moment at which it became lost. It cannot heal an illness whose origin is kept obscure.
This is absurd. George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues.
Were there other causes? Yes, of course. But there was an immediate and essential cause.
And this needs saying, because if you don't know what broke the elephant you can't put it together again. The party cannot re-find itself if it can't trace back the moment at which it became lost. It cannot heal an illness whose origin is kept obscure.
posted by BP News Bureau | 10:08 AM
1 Comments:
Watch for the GOP to attempt swoop in after the November elections and make profit of the wreckage.
You missed your calling, Peggy. You should have gone into stand-up comedy.
I'm the old vet who fought on the front lines of the Reagan-era front...
This kind of revisionism is repulsive. So many pols who served in Congress during the Reagan era and who now invoke the sacred Reagan icon would prefer that we forget it was them who aided and abetted the left in stopping or attempting to stop everything Reagan wanted to accomplish.
It is along those lines the big decision will be made.
I don't think so, Peggy. The decision will be made along the lines of who ti will be least painful to watch Hillary trounce.
I can't say I'm all that sorry to see the so-called conservative punditry devouring itself. These people have proven themselves to be unreliable and just as big a pack of whores and water-carriers as their brethren on the left. A pox on both their houses.
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