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"P.J. O’Rourke is one of a long list of formerly prominent conservative writers who have long since past their expiration dates...It happens on the Left as well."

This. New battle lines are being drawn. New figures and agendas on both the left and right are emerging. There's a storm on the horizon, and we are headed into uncharted waters.

[Wallace T.]

Generational turns occur, and the Baby Boomer era writers and those a little older, like Tyrrell, Bennett, and Buchanan, are fading in importance. Limbaugh, Levin, and Savage are in the 55-70 age bracket. There is a good conservative farm team of thirty- and forty-somethings in the state governments and Congress. The question arises: who will rally the troops? Talk radio may be a dying medium anyway in the world of tweets and iphones. The negative side is that there may be no one. In the last decade, the Christian Right suffered a major blow as its spokesman either passed away, like Falwell and Kennedy, or effectively retired, like Dobson and Robertson. The Christian conservatives have never recovered their clout.