tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460005.post5673504653350106152..comments2023-11-05T04:28:29.961-08:00Comments on Adventures in Capitalism: Whither Realignment? (Why Palinism Won't Work)Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00927628412285314176noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460005.post-11140649672914603882008-11-18T16:21:00.000-08:002008-11-18T16:21:00.000-08:00I'm old enough that I remember the homelessness an...I'm old enough that I remember the homelessness and despair of the actual reign of Reagan.<BR/><BR/>He talked a good game while doing his best to imitate Nixon without getting impeached.<BR/><BR/>And, before you think this is partisan, I think the Democrats are just as bad and just as corrupt.MLOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01779450983499873776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460005.post-82560858308981738812008-11-11T06:37:00.000-08:002008-11-11T06:37:00.000-08:00If the Republicans don't figure out how to "get it...If the Republicans don't figure out how to "get it" and move into the future, they will be left behind. The most modern campaign won. A revived republican party will need to focus on bringing the best ideas from its ideoogical history forward into the new world. McCain/ Palin totally ignored that, weirdly.alicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13150238603170281637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460005.post-60770124446981140632008-11-10T13:12:00.000-08:002008-11-10T13:12:00.000-08:00Foo,I have to agree with your take, even though it...Foo,<BR/><BR/>I have to agree with your take, even though it's a pretty grim one.<BR/><BR/>The Republican party had carefully nurtured a reputation for fiscal responsibility and foreign policy competence...both of which Bush 43 flushed down the toilet.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00927628412285314176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460005.post-42371404804257002892008-11-08T15:38:00.000-08:002008-11-08T15:38:00.000-08:00Unfortunately, small-government Republicans got sw...Unfortunately, small-government Republicans got swept aside by those who got used to the comforts of Washington. "Compassionate Conservatism" didn't help. Even people like me, who thought the WoT - including Iraq - were necessary had a hard time dealing with Bush's general incompetence in all things domestic.<BR/><BR/>He kept Congress funding Iraq by rolling over on everything else, which will likely end up being far more expensive to the country than the war itself.<BR/><BR/>Now, given the choice between social-con big government and live & let live big government, any who isn't a bible-thumper chose the latter.<BR/><BR/>Now, the biggest danger for Republicans is to go for the Mike Huckabee "God, Guns & Butter" strategy, which will leave the large Leave-Me-Alone coalition in the Democrat camp for lack of anywhere else to go.<BR/><BR/>Obama may still overreach with his "communitarian" stuff like mandatory "volunteerism", etc and drive the Leave-Me-Aloners away, but I suspect he's smarter than that.Foobaristahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17695839524769425977noreply@blogger.com