“I hope you will enjoy watching the raging McCain purge the Republican Party of any meaningful conservative influence with no opposition.”
He won’t be able to do that, even if he wants to. Reagan couldn’t purge us of liberals!
Reagan didn’t try to purge the party of liberals. He welcomed them as part of our coalition, while pursing policies that were as conservative as possible given the constraints of the real world.
McCain, on the other hand, will try to purge conservatives from the party. He’ll do it by marginalizing them and by giving amnesty to twenty million new left-wing voters. He’ll engage in triangulation, in which a few overt kooks like Michael Moore represent “the far left”, while the GOP base becomes “the far right”. The moderate, supposedly sensible “mainstream” will be McCain, Specter, Kennedy, Schumer, Feingold, Feinstein, Snowe, etc.
“I hope you will enjoy watching the raging McCain purge the Republican Party of any meaningful conservative influence with no opposition.”
“He won’t be able to do that, even if he wants to. Reagan couldn’t purge us of liberals!”
He won’t be able to do that because he will be soundly defeated in November and Republicans will have to look for a new face for the party.
> He won’t be able to do that, even if he wants to. Reagan
> couldn’t purge us of liberals!
Dream on.
Unlike Reagan, McCain will have the help of his friends on the Left and the so-called “independents” to neuter the conservatives within and without the GOP.