Room Left to Govern? (Interesting comment on GOP future)

Washington Post ^ | 07/02/2004 | E.J. Dionne

[cogitator]

This was the paragraph that caught my eye:

One effect of a Kerry victory might be to bring out into the open Republican divisions that are already beginning to surface. Former representative Steve Gunderson, a Wisconsin Republican, speaks of "a coming civil war in the party" spurred by the efforts of conservatives to purge moderates from its ranks. This civil war over social issues is compounded by new divisions over deficits and the use of tax cuts not only to "promote growth" -- there is, says Gunderson, "nothing wrong with that" -- but also to "shut down the legitimate role of government."

[nonliberal]

The inherent problem there is that most of the core RAT constituencies are poor, dependent, uneducated sheep. True conservatives think for themselves and don't simply follow the herd.

Night of the Long Knives is coming for the RINOs.

[jammer]

The writer has it exactly backward--it is not conservatives purging moderates from the ranks. It is neo-cons purging paleos. See David Frum in NR who read many of us out of the ranks of conservatives.

[John Lenin]

Never underestimate the power of the me, me , me generation. The boomer generation is pathetic when it comes to thinking past it's own nose.