A fantastic article written by conservatives in the Washington Monthly on why it’s time for the Republicans to lose in November was pointed out on this site by Anthony Gregory.
I’m sure that got the boys at National Review pretty upset, but not as upset as they are now. It seems that two of their own (Ramesh Ponnuru in the New York Times and Jonah Goldberg in the Los Angeles Times) “have engaged in such speculation, too.”
Says NR about Ponnuru and Goldberg:
They point out that the Republican majority has become lazy, careless, and obsessed with calculating the marginal sell-outs that will preserve power. That is mostly true, though not entirely so—the House has bucked President Bush and the Senate on immigration. Ponnuru and Goldberg also suggest that two years of Democratic excesses would tee up a GOP victory in 2008. This is a desperate hope: The Democrats would certainly be excessive (impeachment, anyone?), but that would not guarantee a voter reaction. The Dems are still waiting for the voter reaction from 1994. On the whole, we put more stock in the wisdom of former mayor Ed Koch—”My mother always told me it’s better to win that to lose”—and hope for Republican reform from within.
Hope for Republican reform from within? For how many hundreds of years? If I didn’t know otherwise, I would think that NR was published by the Republican National Committee.
The Republicans deserve to lose, but not so they can win in 2008. They deserve to lose because they are the party of militarism, big government, plunder, compromises, and sellouts.
5:26 pm on October 7, 2006
