...someone should have told them, they might actually get what they wish for, and i hope they do tear their movement apart, it will be better for the country and the world.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bal-op.schaller19dec19,0,5082102.column?coll=bal_news_opinion_utilIn the 40 years between 1966 and 2006, the Republican Party rose from a marginalized minority party into a national governing majority. Though the GOP made significant gains among white Catholics, suburban women and other slivers of the population,
it was the conversion of white Southerners and the somewhat-overlapping mobilization of evangelicals that propelled what Karl Rove has called the Republicans' "rolling realignment."...
...A party can take its base voters for granted only for so long before there must be an accounting, and that accountability moment seems to have arrived in the past month in the form of Mike Huckabee......Mr. Bush, of course, is a Southerner and a born-again Christian. What, then, distinguishes Mr. Huckabee from Republican nominees of the past? Plenty, but most significantly this:
The new man from Hope is not a product of the GOP's establishment wing......That said, can Mr. Huckabee buck his party and capture the nomination? "For anyone who wonders why this charmer with a perfect record on the right's core social litmus tests has not already wrapped up the Republican nomination, they need look no further than the disgruntled uber-conservatives who are spitting mad that Huckabee has been too nice to poor people and foreigners," writes Sarah Posner in a recent issue of
The American Prospect, concluding that the establishment wing will eventually tear him down.
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