The GOP's Looming Battle--EJDionne--WaPo

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/10/AR2006071001104.html?referrer=email&referrer=email&referrer=email

The GOP's Looming Battle

By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006; A17



As it looks beyond the elections of 2006, a Republican Party known for ideological solidarity is on the cusp of a far more searching philosophical battle than are the Democrats, historically accustomed to bruising fights over the finer points of political theory.

The coming Republican brawl reflects the fact that President Bush will leave office with no obvious heir, and Bushism as a political philosophy has yet to establish itself in the way that Reaganism did.

Moreover, the four top candidates in most polls for the GOP's 2008 presidential nomination -- Sen. John McCain, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and former House speaker Newt Gingrich -- all promise very different styles of leadership.

The Democrats, in the meantime, are engaged in an argument over a question rooted more in social psychology than policy: Can Hillary win?

INTERESTING POLITICAL GOSSIP (RATHER LIGHTWEIGHT AND BIASED, OF COURSE)

adulterers and a mormon. Who'd a thunk it?? Are they nuts?

end of discussion. :eyes:

That's the problem. So was Reaganism, but he didn't invade all and sundry, and the economy was not a badly eroded.

We invaded Lebanon (until the bombers took us out), Panama, Grenada, and many other Latin American countries that didn't get public scrutiny, esp Colombia, Nicaragua, and El Salvador.

And the economy tanked in New England. Big companies went belly up, houses went unsold for a decade.