[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Remember how I said the GOP is becoming balkanized?

Take a look at Michael Reagan’s latest commentary

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“This is Balkanization at its worst. The Republican Party is broken up into a lot of large pockets nursing our own prejudices and our own grudges, and unwilling to accept the other guy’s opinion if he doesn’t agree with us on every issue 100 percent of the time. So we break up into factions, allowing a single issue to divide us when we agree on everything else.

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We are further Balkanized by becoming a party of personalities. We are attaching ourselves to certain individuals, and as a result we have become a party of people and not a party of principles. We are Romney-ites, or Huckabee or Giuliani devotees, or McCain-ites, or supporters of Gov. Sarah Palin — when we need to be just plain Republicans.”

http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/mreagan/2008/mr_11211.shtml

[redgirlinabluestate]

So true, isn’t it? A lot of his dad’s common sense rubbed off on Michael.

[WOSG]

We are further Balkanized by becoming a party of personalities. We are attaching ourselves to certain individuals, and as a result we have become a party of people and not a party of principles. We are Romney-ites, or Huckabee or Giuliani devotees, or McCain-ites, or supporters of Gov. Sarah Palin — when we need to be just plain Republicans.”

This needs to be tattooed on our foreheads for the next 4 years so we see in the mirror every day. Important reminder!... Stand for conservative principles and not personalities. Principle centered activists can be united and strong, but divisions into personalities lead to a disastrous result. It's too early for us to get into divisions over 2012. FIRST, lets focus on 2010 - and any GOP leader wo does not contribute to 2010 success is not fit to lead as our 2012 nominee.