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Good article...Sadly Bush has damaged the GOP as much as Carter damaged the libs. I don’t know how go on from here.

I'd argue that the last Republican majority in both houses of Congress did far more to damage the GOP than Bush, and that makes the GOP's problem much more difficult. If GOP congressmen gorge on taxpayer funded pork as greedily as Democrats, protect members involved in sex scandals and refuse to stand up for basic conservative concepts like limited government and free markets, what good is the GOP?

Arlen Spector illustrates the nature of the GOP today - Bush and the GOP leadership supported this man despite the fact that he is not a conservative because guiding principles no longer matter to the GOP - gaining power and hanging on to it do. Spector left for precisely the same reason - he thinks he can get re-elected as a Democrat, and the principles that made him a Republican are replaceable. And so we have today's GOP.