Bruce McFarland: Decline and fall of a political empire
Posted: April 27, 2009 9:18 p.m.
... We are fighting two wars, the American and world economies are collapsing, the environment is on life support and we are subjected to opposition harangues about minutia.
Not crazy enough for you? Governor Rick Perry of Texas has threatened to secede from the union and 51 percent of Texas Republicans support this secession. I'm not sure where that falls on the patriotism scale - probably pretty low - but when a leader of the Party of Lincoln calls for secession, it rockets to the top of the irony scale ...
The Party of Eisenhower, Goldwater, Kissinger, Buckley, Will and Reagan has become the Party of Limbaugh, Hannity, Gingrich, O'Reilly, Cheney, Beck and Bush and its new face is small, petty and mean.
Rebuilding a winning coalition on black helicopter paranoia, catty gossip and irrational hatred will not be easy, especially when you are fighting a new majority of hope, change and rock ‘n' roll ...
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