I have very little hope for the near term prospects of the Republican Party.
One only needs to look at the other conservative blogs to see the problem. No one seems to have learned any lessons, or seems willing to admit that the tactics and strategies of the past decade have brought us to this low point.
The word “unity” as in “party unity” doesn’t exist in that universe. No one regrets having dismissed from the conversation everyone but the social conservatives.
Ben DeGrow, who is usually the sanest of the lot, discussed a Kathleen Parker editorial that he seems to have agreed with but couldn’t find the courage to say so (see the comments). Instead of admitting that she had a point, he focused on the language she used as a means of discrediting what she said. What does he really believe about the need for unity, the need for welcoming fiscal conservatives back to the party? I haven’t the foggiest idea. He hasn’t provided any evidence that he knows what he wants.
Slapstick Politics likes Michelle Malkin enough to have promoted without much of his own comment her comments on Pajamas Media.
Unfortunately, Michelle Malkin’s current theme is that social conservatives should put on the clothing of fiscal conservatives while simultaneously showing them the door. She, it seems, could hardly stand John McCain and blames him for the sun coming up on Election day and everything else that happened. While trying to co-opt fiscal conservatism, she forgets that John McCain was more a fiscal conservative than a social conservative. She forgets that the leading congressional social conservatives of the first GWB term couldn't credibly be called fiscal conservatives.
As I prepared for this essay, I got the biggest laugh from the Daily Blogster who said:
I am not saying we copy Democrats and kill our own if they disagree with us 1% of the time but I am saying that we should not compromise on issues of Life, Fiscal Responsibility and Low Taxes
I wouldn’t want to call Bob a hypocrite or anything of the sort, but when I wrote a satirical essay on the refusal of James Dobson, Rush Limbaugh and others to admit that they would vote for McCain, Bob led a behind the scenes effort to “expel” me from the ranks of conservative bloggers. It doesn’t matter that I was right and the big guns did come around, only that I was embarrassing people that he admired.
These are supposedly the leading lights of the Colorado conservative blogosphere. They want a Republican party totally dominated by social conservatives with a sign on door that says "fiscal conservatives may go their own way."
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