America's conservatives take another blow

Super analysis piece in the Economist, the title is sensationalist but
despite that the article is worth reading IMHO.
http://www.economist.com/agenda/disp...ory_id=4462459

Part I like the best is below. I wonder if John McCain really has a
chance, and more importantly, is he a diver?

Geo

Surviving Watergate and Bill Clinton

Predictions of the demise of American conservatism are almost as old as
the movement. It survived both Watergate and Bill Clinton. Emmett
Tyrell, the editor of the American Spectator, published "The
Conservative Crack-up" in 1992. So much of the right's power lies
outside the administration and Congress-in its domination of the
intellectual agenda for instance-that it is seldom down for long.

The Democrats show few signs that they have the wind in their sails.
Their handling of John Roberts's nomination to the Supreme Court has
been dismal. Neither Harry Reid, the minority leader in the Senate, nor
Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader in the House, is likely to set the
world on fire. Moveon.org types want to drag the party to the left;
Clintonistas want to pull it to the centre. America has two
dysfunctional parties.

But Mr Bush's recent problems do raise one important possibility:
that of a realignment on the right. The fact that the Bush machine is
running out of steam makes it much less likely that he will be able to
determine his successor. This creates opportunities for very different
sorts of conservatives who are waiting in the wings.

One possibility is Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York, who
combines managerial toughness with social liberalism. But an even more
likely one is John McCain. Up until now Mr McCain, a senator, has been
popular in the country at large (he wins all head-to-head competitions
with Hillary Clinton) but unpopular with the conservative movement. But
the right is beginning to warm to him. He has spent his career
campaigning against the sort of pork-barrel spending that conservatives
are now railing against. And he is soundly conservative on both foreign
and fiscal policy. A conservative crack-up may be going too far; but a
conservative realignment is definitely in the works.

In article <1128117380.318452.206420@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
ghmorris@candlelight.ca says...

> Super analysis piece in the Economist, the title is sensationalist but
> despite that the article is worth reading IMHO.
> http://www.economist.com/agenda/disp...ory_id=4462459

> Part I like the best is below. I wonder if John McCain really has a
> chance, and more importantly, is he a diver?

conservatives arent all that great

the problem the left has is that they are so bloody lame




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