[neverdem]

What a thread to have resurrected!

A Frothy Mixture of Collectivism and Conservatism

If you see any good analyses of last month's debacle, please give me a ping.

[KDD]

I and others tried to moderate the venom spewing from the mouths of social conservatives during the Schiavo debacle. I warned them that using what William Buckley called "the killing language" would alienate the majority, which had a different view of what was happening in Pinellas Park.

In 2003 I warned of this possible outcome. The GOP ignored the warnings of conservatives like me and paid the price at the polls. Frist managed to prove how deep their myopia was at the same time p***ing off some 12 million predominately young people with his Unlawfull Gambling Act, covertly slipped into the Port Security Bill in the dead of night. I suspect this was one reason for the much higher turnout among the 20-34 year old crowd. The online "Velvet Revolution" managed to turn Bill Leach out (the author of the bill) and who knows what other damage overall to the GOP chances in 2006.