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.
A whole thread full of wishful thinking ;)
The choice for the reps in the future is simple.
Big tent or no tent.
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!!!
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.
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.
What exactly is the difference between a conservative and a neocon? Never quite figured it out.
Anyone who includes this RINO clown in an article looses me at that sentence.
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.
Phyllis Schlafly on foreign policy? Yiich! I didn't like her back in her heyday, she's more stupid now.
AKA Country Club Republicans. Bring back Bob Michel and his merry band of ranking members and back benchers. How 'bout that Steve Forbes.
Any conservative who still thinks idiotically that we made a mistake in Liberating Iraq please go here ...
http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com/
And read the Saddam articles ...
Or read this, from an IRAQI:
http://messopotamian.blogspot.com/
I have been listening to the report about the WMD’s by Mr. David Kay. Now, all of you in the West must know that as far as we, the Iraqis, are concerned, we care very little that stocks of WMD’s existed or not at the time of liberation. For us Saddam and his regime were in themselves, the most lethal WMD that cost our people hundreds of thousands of victims not to mention the destruction of the economy and the very fabric of society in our afflicted country. That regime was a dead end for our people and with its continuation there was no hope whatsoever for the future. Mr. David Kay did mention something about this, and he should know, since he spent so much time in Iraq and has intimate knowledge of the situation. Saddamism is a cancer that we have yet to recover from. Western intervention lead by the U.S.A. was a God send to us, despite all the pain and misery that accompanied the operation and the repercussions that continue to rock the process of recuperation and rebirth of the nation. The U.S. soldiers are bravely standing in the thick of the turmoil and contributing with their blood and sweat not to mention the treasure of their land, towards curing us from the remaining ulcers of the disease after having performed the main surgery which no one else even dared even to think of.
Perhaps, the interests of our people were not the main consideration that led to that action; nevertheless, that does not change anything about the importance and implications for the people of Iraq of this tremendous historical act. Yes there is pain, chaos and loss; yet on the other hand, there is possibility of hope, and a clearly discernible “light at the end of tunnel”, to use this worn out phrase.
Were we better off during Saddam’s time? - A question to which many outsiders are very keen to know our answer. Well, in many respects the streets are much more insecure, yet the security that existed in Saddam’s days was like someone quietly waiting for certain death; like a cancer stricken individual carrying the disease in his guts with no hope or attempt at cure. Yes, the pain and torture may be much more terrible when the surgeon has operated and the disease is tackled; but at least there is hope of recovery and healing, and the prospect of life saving. And this is not allegory, nor a parable; this is coming from someone whose house has been standing in the midst of bombs and explosions for so long now, protected by none but the mercy and grace of the Lord; from someone who has suffered robbery, kidnapping and constant daily danger.
And here we are, trying to organize elections, trying to control the security situation, trying to restart the reconstruction, able to talk, able to think, able to watch satellite T.V., use the internet, the mobile etc. – in short everything that we have been forbidden to do before. And without the slightest hesitation, we hail with Love and Gratitude our giant U.S. friend and his allies, standing with us shoulder to shoulder, braving the elements, braving death, calumny and hatred, shedding blood; to help us heal, to help us reach the shores of safety. And make no mistake, the campaign is winning and will achieve its objectives. Make no mistake; you have already created an allied nation in the very heart of the M.E. despite all appearances, which will produce all the long term benefits and consequences so many times reiterated by President Bush, to the ridicule and insults of the profoundly mistaken, of the profoundly hating.
America, stay the course - God, Decency, Honor, Hope and everything that is virtuous and right is on your side, beside the majority of the Iraqi people. America do not waiver, for you have never waged a more noble and just campaign in your entire history. America, we are winning, God’s willing, and Victory is coming sooner than many might think.
What a load. Half the quotes aren't even related to the transition the writer is trying to connect to them.
The idea there will be some big fight is ridiculous since Bush has already taken a side.
If Bush had not removed Saddam From Iraq the Democrats and Republicans would be calling him "weak" on national security and defense. While the UN and it's Saddam apologist members (France and Germany)grew fat on oil for food kick-backs, George W. Bush did what was right, at the right time, at the right place. It's called leadership.
Good article. Personally I'm not all that upset over the neo-con agenda in fighting the mohammedan radicals. Their big government spend spend spend domestic agenda scares the hell out of me though.
I still don't know what a "neocon" is, but there does seem to be some kind of division in the GOP along liberal vs. conservative lines. Hopefully the conservos will win out.
Just exactly what is a neo-conservative? Could a knowledgeable FReeper define this for me? And give me three well-know examples of neo-conservatives and explain what makes them so? Thanks much!
