AmericanPapist Comments
Now, just gotta wait for Obama, Clinton, Romney, McCain, and Huckabee to drop out and we can stand a chance at getting a decent person into office who won't wage insane wars, prevent health freedom, and will respect life as a whole.
At least the "not-so-conservative" McCain is beating out both "pretty-liberal" Hillary & "flaming-liberal" Barack Hussein Obama.
Always look for the silver lining.
Michael Gerson, a former speech writer for Bush and now a columnist for the Washington Post, had an article in last week's Newsweek on how the GOP has managed to fracture and collapse in four years. Pretty interesting stuff. A quick precis of it is that he blames the Party for becoming corrupt and arrogant, and the American people won't tolerate that, as seen in the 2006 midterms. Perhaps more importantly, though, he says the traditional issues the GOP campaigned on--lowering taxes, reforming welfare, and reducing crime--have been successfully acted upon, and now the Republican Party doesn't have new issues they can call their own, be it the environment, health care, or economics. So now the Party has three candidates that represent the interests of three different bases. He had a key line: "Parties that prefer purity to victory--a la Goldwater and McGovern--usually lose." A pretty good argument by a Republican insider, I must say.
shouldn't give up yet. McCain is hardly a good result.
And who exactly is going to beat either Hillary or Obama? I'm not even certain any candidate sharing the same party affiliation of Bush can beat Obama, but if anyone is going to do it, it's McCain. But the purists Gerson talks about might sink any nominee, be it McCain or Romney, by being stubborn and refusing to turn out just because the candidate doesn't cater to their every desire. It's amazing so many conservatives will trash McCain for working with Democrats when it's precisely Bush's arrogance and failure to do the same is why so much of the nation is fed up with him and are so drawn to appeals for bipartisanship from both McCain and Obama. The times, they are a-changin'. Thank God.
'purists' know that life is longer than the next election
Sure, but a Supreme Court justice can be on the bench for an awful long time...
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