The liberals and so called moderates want to belittle Reagan, and his legacy, so that Republicans will lose their inspiration to forward men like Duncan Hunter for the presidency.
Before such disempowering PATHOS, conservatives are supposed to shrug and vote for a trashy moderate Republican candidate instead of a Democrat?
Nope. This is not the conservative consensus as described iun this article. Conservatives are merely wondering why the Republican party persists in the tyranny of 7 senators who helped form the gang of 14 ,and under the guise of bipartisanship traduced the legislative agenda that Republicans were elected to put in place. The House of Representatives never wavered, but the Senate caved.
Now Republican intellectuals iterate underwhelmingly that those Senatorial hijinks were a good thing? It was their foolish, paternalistic, aristocratic tyranny, which rejected the fruits of democracy. And conservatives are them meandering and confused? I think not. We laugh at the Republican leadership that wants we conservatives to follow a bunch of belicose, jingoistic RINOs. We knnow the kind of leadership we need and want, and so far, the presidential nominee candidates are laughable, except for Hunter and Gingrich.
So I am afraid that Diggins and Will are all wet on their position about Reaganites. We are simply biding our time, and watching the sick peregrinations of little men who wish only to play with the electorate instead of representing it.We will send them on their way soon enough.
that's the kind of body the senate is (absent 60 votes).
I was against the gang of 14 too - but with 20/20 hindsight now, I was wrong, it worked out well. it prevented Roberts and most especially Alito, from being fillibustered.