What's next?
The Right-Wing columnist Peggy Noonan actually poses an important question:
Most importantly for him, and for all the Republican candidates for that matter,
Mr. Thompson will have to answer this question: What is he running to do? Why
should the Republicans get another eight years, or four years, after all the
missteps they've made? Isn't conservatism, or Republicanism, or whatever you
call it, just tired? Isn't it over? Isn't America just waiting for whatever will
take its place?
Peggy's plaintive question almost makes you feel sorry for the Rethugs who've been driven off the cliff by their hapless "leaders." Almost, but not really. Because they have embraced nearly all of Bush/Cheney's most disgraceful initiatives aimed at making the rich richer while disenfranchising the poor. They have questioned the patriotism of all Bush opponents for years, and now they want us to believe they're a new party, with new ideas? No, the brave folks who challenged the Patriot Act, and have been fighting the Bush agenda for years have won the right to ask for the public's trust.
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The Rethugs are between a rock and a hard place. You can't win the primaries without the support of hardcore Bush supporters, but you can't even come close in the general election without repudiating Bush in a very decisive way.
The more I hear people say the Dems can't lose, the more I get scared we're gonna jinx it!
The more I hear people say the Dems can't lose, the more I get scared we're gonna jinx it!
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