I don't think it will go back to the rats -- they're nothing but a bunch of communists. My theory is the pubs will keep drifting left due to the influx of liberals abandoning the democrat ship.
I will be looking hard at the constitution and other alternative parties. There is obviously no place for conservatives in the Republican party, and we must find a new home.
This too corresponds with my view of the historical trend. I see the democrat party marginalized and dying, the republican party becoming the liberal party, and a new conservative party rising to challenge them from the right.
Time to get to work.
I don't see Harriet Miers getting picked. It would open up her tenure as Texas Lottery Commissioner to intense scrutiny and the central controversy of that period involves GTECH gaming scandals and Bush's Texas Air National Guard service.
Is that what Bush wants in the public eye as the Safavian and Abramoff scandals break?
From the Amarillo Globe News 7/29/99:
"Littwin's attorneys also have questioned whether Bush allies, in return for the Guard appointment, helped the state's lottery operator, GTECH, fend off efforts by Littwin that might have upset its lucrative contract.
An unsigned letter to a U.S. attorney in 1996 that Littwin's lawyers obtained in their case prompted questions about the Guard, The News said. The letter was sent after the three-member Lottery Commission voted unanimously to extend the GTECH contract for five years rather than seek new bids.
It alleged that GTECH was allowed to keep its contract in return for Barnes not revealing his help in getting Bush into the Guard, the newspaper said. A former top Bush aide who now lobbies for GTECH brokered the deal between the governor and Barnes, the letter said. Both the former aide and Lottery Commission Chairwoman Harriet Miers denied the accusations."
The allegations haven't been proved but making them the central focus of a second SCOTUS nomination seems unlikely.
I see the exact same historical trend.
I may be unique on this thread in that I find the most disturbing thing about her the fact that she spent 5 of the last 10 years running a lottery. Being able to be the leader of a morally abhorrent program for a full five years indicates a level of comfort with government-sponsored human degradation that I am not at all comfortable with.
"I don't think it will go back to the rats"
I guarantee that the church will stay home in 2006, and Hillary will win the POTUS in 2008.
The church is the GOP base, and Bush just stuck it to us.
I won't be voting GOP anymore.
2008 Curt Weldon for President.