One month before last November's election: THE COMING HIBERNATION OF THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PARTY
For years I have believed that the national Republican Party, beginning in 1994, has been on a self-destructing course. Even at the height of their electoral power (from 2000 through 2006), the Party was in a no-win situation.
The "Reagan revolution" began to bring to power various groupings of people who sought elected office for many reasons, but who shared just one common underpinning: the absolute distaste for the national government, in all its forms, except for the military.
That shared frame of mind set the Party on a course of eventual self-diminution. The Party began to retract seriously in 2006, and, with the massive loss of standing by President Bush, the impatience with the Iraq war, and the dramatic challenges of the economy, the hibernating phase of the Party is now in earnest.
More after break ...
Read More