Posted on 08/03/2006 8:13:19 PM PDT by seutonius1234
Is conservatism finished?
What might have seemed an absurd question less than two years ago is now one of the most important issues in American politics. The question is being asked -- mostly quietly but occasionally publicly -- by conservatives themselves as they survey the wreckage of their hopes, and as their champions in the Republican Party use any means necessary to survive this fall's elections.
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Far as I'm concerned, we're just gettin' started, E.J.
The Democratic Party is staring into the abyss.
Agreed. This EJ guy is the worst type of liberal.
What's the opposite of right? Wrong!
The dems are falling apart at the seams and this guy is pretending in his little wet dream that its the republicans. Dream on, EJ, you little twerp.
Liberals keep repeating this crap over and over and over. it seems the only place they can win is in their own minds.
Correction: the opposite of right is communist.
I continue to wonder whent he moderate conservative base in the Democrat party is going to split and the party as we know it will no longer exist. At that point leftist liberalilsm will start into it's death throws. And it will be fun to watch.
Spot on!
Moderates left the democrats long ago. Now their voters consist of 3 groups: liberals, the delusional, and the dead.
What planet is she on?
They must be simply desperate to fill the column inches.
ROFLMAO!!
I hope you're right and that in November we can see evidence of that. They seem to be putting a lot of their hopes in this mid-term.
Yes they are. They will win back neither the house nor the senate, and Bush's record of electoral success will stand.
And what do you call it, E.J.?
And what do you call it, E.J.?
The guy's a nut and has absolutely no scintilla of modern objective political knowledge.
So for his benefit, I'll explain this in plain English...
While the Republican Party may be superficially split along the lines of indie conservatives vs. the so-called "Bush-bots", the conservative movement is nontheless beyond unified and a growing force by the day. It is a dynamic political force to be reckoned with.
Coupled with the total ineptitude of the Democratic Party (and their slipping into complete irrelevance) by ever moving radically toward the left, the Republicans can and likely will continue to dominate the government.
And assuming that the superficial split can be overcome (which is an excellent likelihood before the '08 election), liberals have no chance to ram their extremist, Socialist agenda on the average Joe Citizen.
Further, the Libs have only themselves to blame for their demise. If they didn't support taxing the heck out of the citizenry, abused power while in office, and defended out-of-the-mainstream positions on controversial issues such as abortion, terrorism, immigration, national security, and homosexual marriage, and took much more of a centrist approach, the Libs still might have had a shot in 2000 and 2004.
But they didn't. Now all they can do is wait for conservatives to slip up big time. And they're showing they're not above doing anything possible to destabilize society in the process.
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