If there really is a vast right wing conspiracy, perhaps it’s a conspiracy against the Republican Party
Choice quotes from right leaning American magazines:
"Republicans must be punished" Ronald Bailey, Reason Magazine
"GOP Must Go" The American Conservative
"Republicans have done nothing to tame the leviathan state or stand-up to the forces of cultural liberalism. They are a moderately Right-leaning, corporatist party that stands for Big Business, Big Government and Big Defense." Jeffrey Kuhner, Insight Magazine
"…it’s President Bush and his GOP Congress who have made the best arguments for pulling the lever for any candidate that doesn’t have an "R" by his or her name." Nick Gillespie, Cato Unbound
"… the Republicans deserved to lose." Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online
Well, it’s pretty obvious that there really was a huge pack of morons acting in concert behind Bush.
Now that the ship is under 5000 metres of water and still sinking, they start to think about heading for the life rafts. Good luck to them with that.
Don
It’s important to understand the reasons for the criticism from the right. It’s strong words to the party that lost its way. We don’t want the Republican party back, we want to conservative party to return. The party of Reagan and the party of 1994 that established a contract with America. In other words we want the party of small government, big defense and a reformist agenda.
Like in 1992, when the GOP begins to behave like the Dems the American voters will just vote in the real thing.
Good Bye. And hope we never see that behaviour again.
Whats interesting is that the Dems elected from the red states essentially promised a conservative agenda. I wouldn’t like to be in Pelosi’s shoes trying to herd these cats.
Shorter Joe Cambria: “Glub glub…”
No surprise that Reason or Cato would oppose Bush, but good to see the more conservative sources having sufficient detachment from partisan loyalties to accept reality.
Judging by a recent post to NRO’s blog the Corner, Jonah Goldberg might be having trouble with reality right now:
You forgot to add Rush Limbaugh channelling Instapundit on why the Republicans deserved to lose, for most of the same reasons that the above people offered.
“We want the party of small government, big defense.” Now there’s an oxymoron.