The Coming Republican Debacle?

Townhall.com ^ | July 13, 2007 | Mona Charen

[claudiustg]

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...

[goldstategop]

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

[backhoe]

The Republicans screwed themselves by abandoning conservatism. That’s all it took. The greedy bastards sold us out, and they are now reaping their whirlwind. I once contributed handsomely, but no more. Bush and the establishment Republicans have been as charlatan as Clinton.

That's how I see it. Pity.

[sirchtruth]

The first time I saw Bush chumming it up with Kennedy I got this sick feeling.

Bush went on to prove how stupidly moderate he is and now has proven to be no
friend of conservatives.

[sergeantdave]

I don’t spend money on socialists. The local bartender is more deserving of my money than the current crop of RINOs. In fact, I’m now spending more money for center cut pork chops for the cat than I’m giving to politicians. (The dog gets ground round.)

[Duke Nukum]

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.

[Murray the R]

we'll survive as a minority again, as we're doing now. As long as remain true to our convictions/

The GOP is now a minority because it betrayed conservative convictions. I hope they learn the right lessons from that.