Posted on 01/26/2008 5:57:27 AM PST by fightinJAG
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On the pundit civil wars, Rush Limbaugh declared on the radio this week, "I'm here to tell you, if either of these two guys [Mr. McCain or Mike Huckabee] get the nomination, it's going to destroy the Republican Party. It's going to change it forever, be the end of it!"
This is absurd. George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues.
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I know. See tagline.
I’m not up on how, but somehow the party gave Taft the boot for Wilkie.
Alan Keyes is nonexistent this cycle. After getting what, 25 percent, against the popular Obama in liberal IL, no one takes him seriously with his reparations for slavery.
I AGREE WITH PEGGY. While I think G.W. did some good things (appointing Roberts and Alito to the SCOTUS)he has basically been a disaster this second term.
Big Government, big spending, open borders, etc., etc., etc. I just wish there was some way he could do “DAMAGE CONTROL” in his State of the Union Speech Monday night.
Probably won’t happen.
I couldn’t agree more. Ms. Noonan’s own sense of self-importance has clouded her judgement and allowed her to believe she speaks for all conservatives.
The idea that George Bush has singlehandedly “destroyed” the Republican party is nonsense. True, many of us would love to see another Reagan appear today and restore clarity and vision to our party. But to blame Bush for not being Reagan is unfair. Even Reagan the President was not “Reagan the Icon” at the time.
True.
“Rush is right. McCain or Huckabee will drive the Republican party further to the left. McCain is a social liberal and a fiscal liberal. Mike is a humanist that loves to ues socialism to make his utopia come true. The differences between the Demoncrats and Republicans will be hardly worth mentioning.
I’m voting for Mitt, the “Mormon”.”
Ditto. I see Romney as my next best choice.
It was Willkie of IN and NYC. His supporters got into the Philadelphia convention with passes and overwhelmed the galleries. They stunned the weak-kneed delegates who actually nominated him on a pro-FDR foreign policy and minor revisions of the New Deal. He did have quite a bit of the support of younger voters, like Obama today. Dewey and Taft deadlocked each other.
This is true the problem is Media every time some substantive stands up as a front runner for the Republican party they are either ignored or portrayed as a Nazi ! while the Darlings of the media and the media itself is held in high regard as the Saviour's of the land and all it's peoples....
If any of the current candidates had half the balls of GW they might not have so much trouble getting elected. Maybe then if there was a someone who could be a real leader they would find the Republican Party would not be in such a state. The divisions were always there but without a good potential shepherd the sheep are getting a litle nervous.
Mel
Don’t attack messenger “Noonan”. Look at her ideas. I am surprised that someone from the WSJ would be this forthcoming.
Yeah, that’s great.
He should be talking about the inherently Marxist idea of taxing income in the first place, the abuses of power that the IRS commonly visit on otherwise free citizens, and the Keynesian monetary and budgetary policies that have led us to economic crisis.
If he did that, we wouldn’t be debating about making the cuts permanent, we would actually have a national dialogue about the morality of our entire economy.
Instead, he allows the line of scrimmage to be positioned way over on the left, and we argue with the statists about minutiae.
I don't follow this. And neither do former agents Ramos and Compean.
Both Bushes have been disasterous for the Republican Party and conservative movement. The two are probably responsible for about 80% of our 15 trillion dollar debt. Bush I was our “kinder, gentler president” and GWB has been our “compassionate conservative.” I, for one, want no more of it.
So, considering the Tip O’Neil, Jim Wright, the media, the ignorant American population that had zero, no, none, nada idea what conservative was, and that people back then got their ‘news’ from ABC/CBS/NBS it was fantastic what Reagan did get done.
There is no excuse for ignorance now, especially within the GOP. I think now in the GOP it is about the money and power, Reagan be damned. There is just too much money in DC, and the political power can make and break any industry. Look at farmers and ethanol. Total taxpayer rape boondoggle.
Speaking of President Reagan, I remember VIVIDLY all the screaming about how he “expanded government and increased spending”...but never heard anyone whining that he single handedly destroyed the Republican party. No, we’re doing it all by ourselves. It’s always easier to blame someone else for our own wrongdoing.
You are so right. This is typical of the left media. Say it long enough and loud enough and people will start believing you.
I used to enjoy looking at Ms. Noonan’s ideas. But I don’t consider her a “messenger.” That would imply that they are not her ideas - that she is merely the mouthpiece for somebody else. I’m no longer a big fan of hers, but I still give her credit for having ideas of her own.
I know a lot of people agree with her, but I don’t and that’s fine. I just resent her presuming to speak for all of us.
Yeah, it killed his wife and her sister, too. That’ll teach ‘em! haha. /s
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