[eleni121]

BUMP

[skeeter]

Excellent.

[rellimpank]

-bflr-

[bailmeout]

The GOP is not an effective advocate for Conservatism. Unfortunately, Reagan and Gingrich are proving to the the exception and not the rule.

Conservatives have two choices: engineer a takeover of the GOP like the left's takeover of the Dem Party or start a another party. RINOs do not have the vision nor the fortitude to fight the left.

[La Enchiladita]

He knows damn well the next four years will not merely be “interesting.” They will be damaging.

As for Thatcher’s observation, it is proving out. There is no turning back.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

He nailed it.

[RDTF]

ah of course. Blame Bush. How original.

[mrsmel]

Hmm, “ratchet effect”, I like that. I've pondered that concept for some time, leave it to the great Lady Thatcher to summarize it so succinctly.

[Alberta's Child]

What does the Right have to show for eight years of a Republican presidency? I supported George W. Bush in 2000 because I thought he had a conservative bone in his body somewhere. I supported him in 2004 because I thought him the lesser of two evils. At this point, I wouldn’t let the fool park his car in my driveway.

Gotta commend Derbyshire for hitting the nail on the head here.

Some of us aren't too disappointed because we were never Republicans in the first place.

[Eagles6]

John nails it.

[x]

Derbyshire may be right, but he's either too early or too late. He's too late to affect the election. Too late for his prediction to be original. And too early to have something substantial to point to to back up his view.

[Revolting cat!]

This shallow, ignorant, self-obsessed man

Not to worry, this shallow, ignorant, self-obsessed man will surround himself with 'deep thinkers', as Thomas Sowell likes to call them, who'll translate his leftist infantilism into destructive policy measures.

[rellimpank]

---Margaret Thatcher used to talk about the “ratchet effect.” When the Left gets power, she said, they drive everything Left; when the Right gets power, they slow the Leftward drive, perhaps even halt it for a spell; but nothing ever gets moved to the Right"--

--Eight years ago I was known to make the comment that given the portion of the voting public interested in personal responsibility, freedom of choices and any of the other qualities prized by the founding fathers, that George W. Bush was -at best-only a bump on the road the nation was on, the road leading over a precipice.

--unfortunately , he wasn't much of a bump.

However, we can console ourselves that the last eight years weren't under a Kerry or a Gore---

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy."

Such a comical and cartoon-like self-caricature of leftist clichés.
But it's not satire???

He could be a chapter in Roger Kimball's Tenured Radicals.

[mtntop3]

Bush seems to have kept the author’s worthless ass and a lot of others safe the last eight years.

[Just another Joe]

It’ll be interesting. Interesting.

May you live in interesting times.