The Coming Republican Debacle?

Is the Republican Party standing on the edge of a cliff? It's possible. Let's consider the bad news.

1) Fund-raising. Republicans are still portrayed as the little Monopoly man capitalists by the media, but the truth is that Democrats are now (alas) the party of the rich. As Peter Schweizer reported in National Review Online last year, "In 2004, Democrats made up 15 of the 25 individuals who gave more than $2 million to 527 groups. Of the Senate and House candidates who received 'bundled' contributions that year, 9 out of the top 10 in the Senate and 8 out of 10 in the House were Democrats. . . . In 2002, those who gave a million dollars or more gave $36 million to the Democrats and only $3 million to Republicans, a 12:1 ratio."

Peggy Noonan’s “Too Bad” should be required reading for everyone. These are some very frightening times.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110010148

What political conservatives and on-the-ground Republicans must understand at this point is that they are not breaking with the White House on immigration. They are not resisting, fighting and thereby setting down a historical marker—”At this point the break became final.” That’s not what’s happening. What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition. This is sad, and it holds implications not only for one political party but for the American future.

The White House doesn’t need its traditional supporters anymore, because its problems are way beyond being solved by the base. And the people in the administration don’t even much like the base. Desperate straits have left them liberated, and they are acting out their disdain. Leading Democrats often think their base is slightly mad but at least their heart is in the right place. This White House thinks its base is stupid and that its heart is in the wrong place.

For almost three years, arguably longer, conservative Bush supporters have felt like sufferers of battered wife syndrome. You don’t like endless gushing spending, the kind that assumes a high and unstoppable affluence will always exist, and the tax receipts will always flow in? Too bad! You don’t like expanding governmental authority and power? Too bad. You think the war was wrong or is wrong? Too bad...

I read Mona Charen's article: I'm more sanguine. We've survived as a minority for a long time. And we'll survive as a minority again, as we're doing now. As long as remain true to our convictions, we'll be able to ensure the America we revere will be around for our children and our children's children.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

Is the Republican Party standing on the edge of a cliff?

If the Republican party leadership in the congress read in the New York Times that they were standing on the edge of a cliff and they should jump over the edge, and there was no cliff nearby, they would appropriate funds to build an artificial cliff so that they could do what the Stalinist newspaper of record told them to do.

It's very sad, really, I used to write to the leadership and tell them to ban the NY Times from the GOP offices but they don't listen to me. If I was the NY Times they would though.

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