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October 28, 2008 at 3:01 pm #588529
WSMomParticipantRepublican fears of historic Obama landslide unleash civil war for the future of the party
“Jim Nuzzo, a White House aide to the first President Bush, dismissed Mrs Palin’s critics as “cocktail party conservatives” who “give aid and comfort to the enemy”.
He told The Sunday Telegraph: “There’s going to be a bloodbath. A lot of people are going to be excommunicated. David Brooks and David Frum and Peggy Noonan are dead people in the Republican Party. The litmus test will be: where did you stand on Palin?”
Mr Frum thinks that Mrs Palin’s brand of cultural conservatism appeals only to a dwindling number of voters.
He said: “She emerges from this election as the probable frontrunner for the 2012 nomination. Her supporters vastly outnumber her critics. But it will be extremely difficult for her to win the presidency.”
Mr Nuzzo, who believes this election is not a re-run of the 1980 Reagan revolution but of 1976, when an ageing Gerald Ford lost a close contest and then ceded the leadership of the Republican Party to Mr Reagan.
He said: “Win or lose, there is a ready made conservative candidate waiting in the wings. Sarah Palin is not the new Iain Duncan Smith, she is the new Ronald Reagan.” On the accuracy of that judgment, perhaps, rests the future of the Republican Party.”
October 28, 2008 at 6:11 pm #645495
JoBParticipantthanks for the link WSMom…
Lest we forget..
many of us have lived through this kind of ideological divide before… it wasn’t all hippies dropping acid in the 60s like the media would lead us to believe…
more of the same doesn’t even begin to reflect what that was like.
there is a rocky road regardless of the outcome of the election.
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