Fixin' for a fight:In the GOP, the long knives are out for the neoconservatives

U.S.News & World Report ^ | 10/25/04 Issue | Thomas Omestad

[Ed Current]

Bush will win this election and there isn't anything Kerry can do about it!

What about after Nov 2?

The public schools and universities will continue to mold opinions that favor an RNC controlled by those with the perspectives of Giuliani, Powell, Rice, Schwarzenegger, Pataki and Bloomberg, rather than social conservatives. The future of the DNC is clearly Clinton/Dean/Edwards.

America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order

Republican leaders, once characterized as having "humble" views on America’s role in the world, have adopted a new foreign policy characterized by attempts to democratize the Middle East. In their book, Jonathan Clarke and Stefan Halper argue that the Bush administration has jettisoned traditional foreign policy concepts such as deterrence and balances of power. In their place, the administration has accepted radical conceptions of the capabilities of American military power and of America’s overall role in the world. The authors claim that a neo-conservative grand strategy threatens to undermine the war against terrorist groups like Al Qaeda, and to degrade America’s credibility, legitimacy, and effectiveness as a global leader.

GOP should terminate the Christian right=The Hill.com=

It is about time that the Republican Party realizes that the Christian right is doing to it exactly what the radical black Rainbow Coalition of Jesse Jackson did to the Democratic Party in the ’80s — making them unelectable. Their embrace is the kiss of death. It is not that the religious right is wrong. Right or wrong, it gets in the way of so much good that the Republican Party could achieve if it were not in the Christian right’s grasp.

Will the Republican Party escape from the embrace of the pro-lifers so that it can nominate candidates like Rudy Giuliani, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice?

Abandonment Of Gop Conservatives... May Cost Bush The Election

But in a repeat of the 2000 GOP National Convention in which the President’s theme was his pledge to form a new Republican Party that was more liberal and "inclusive" in outlook, Convention planners have stacked the convention with a lineup of what Phyllis Schlafly, the leader of the pro-life Eagle Forum, called "aggressively pro-abortion speakers." Among these are liberal GOP ideologues such as former NY Mayor Rudy Guliani, Republican National Committee Finance Director Lewis M. Eisenberg CA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, NY Governor George Pataki and ultraliberal New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg who has openly supported the right of anti-Bush protesters to attempt to disrupt the GOP convention and embarrass the President.

[rdb3]

This is hilarious! Thanx for posting it!

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[dr_who_2]

There's no question whom Richard Viguerie wants to see in the White House for the next four years. A founding father of the modern conservative movement, he is foursquare behind President Bush despite what he regards as undue influence from one wing of the GOP, the neoconservatives.

What I want to know is if he's a neo-conservative who is fighting against a neo-neo-conservative or versa vica?

[dr_who_2]

Some conservatives feel Bush acted hastily on Iraq and needlessly shed allies who had stood with the United States on Afghanistan, mushrooming the costs borne by Washington.

Mmmmm. Those must be the sorts of conservatives that the press likes.

[lawnguy]

A whole thread full of wishful thinking ;)

[tkathy]

The choice for the reps in the future is simple.

Big tent or no tent.

[WOSG]

blah blah blah


The Liberals want us to fight amongst ourselves and to QUIT WINNING. They hate that.

They want their liberal power back so they can ignore conservatives of *all* stripes, cultural, free-market, and foreign policy conservatives...



ANNOY A LIBERAL - VOTE BUSH!!!

[atomicpossum]

You say that Bush will win and that all these things must change because it's made it impossible for them to win. Very nicely schizo.

Cut out the Christian Right and you lose a large chunk of your base. You truly will be unelectable.

[Prime Choice]

The Republicans' united front masks a growing struggle sparked by the president's hawkish and ambitious foreign policy...

Bulls***. The biggest schism is over what to do about illegal immigrants. Hands down. The liberation of Iraq doesn't even make the radar in comparison.

[zahal724]

What exactly is the difference between a conservative and a neocon? Never quite figured it out.

[Seeking the truth]

Lincoln Chafee

Anyone who includes this RINO clown in an article looses me at that sentence.

[Prime Choice]

The choice for the reps in the future is simple. Big tent or no tent.

And the bigger we make the tent, the more we lose the base. Not exactly a winning strategy there.

[tet68]

Just more, Republican party split, infighting between factions threatens campaign, Yada, yada, yada.

Meanwhile, Democratic party exhibits solidarity, pulls
behind Kerry to give nation the change it's crying out for.

Etc, etc, etc.

[Prime Choice]

Some conservatives feel Bush acted hastily on Iraq and needlessly shed allies who had stood with the United States on Afghanistan, mushrooming the costs borne by Washington.

Mmmmm. Those must be the sorts of conservatives that the press likes.

Yeah, the kind that don't exist.

[Prime Choice]

Anyone who includes this RINO clown in an article looses me at that sentence.

Got some background on the guy? This is the first time I've ever seen his name.

[FastCoyote]

Hallucinations. There was a NYT story like this too. The infighting among Republicans is miniscule at this point, as low as it has been.

[dr_who_2]

Some of that debate is already bubbling to the surface. GOP Sens. Richard Lugar (chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee), Lindsey Graham, John McCain, and Lincoln Chafee have bemoaned aspects of Iraq policy

I'd like to know what their conservative agenda is supposed to be, especially people like Lincoln Chafee.

[airborne]

From the American Heritage dictionary -

Neo-, A word or element meaning "new" or "recent", especially a new form of something.

[dr_who_2]

...like "Lincoln Chafee" and "Arlen Spector", for instance?

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

the war's impact on delaying conservative economic initiatives to cut taxes and the size of government, privatize Social Security, and expand free trade.

So sorry that the planes crashing into buildings and all those other nuisances has focused attention away from every one-issue one-percenter's pet cause.