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Ronald Reagan is Spinning in His Grave... PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 11 June 2008 11:22

...and Tip O'Neil is laughing his ass off in his.

Why?

Chris Cilizza in The Fix has this article about the ads being run by Republican incumbents up for re-election. The Senators mentioned in the article, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Elizabeth Dole, have taken the O'Neil political model of All Politics is Local to its logical conclusion and are running ads focusing on the federal boodle they are bringing home to their respective states.

When you consider the programs they mention, it isn't pretty. Readers of my recent NRO article on the subject know that I think adopting the O'Neil strategy is one of the primary reasons for the downfall of the nominally conservative party. Recent events in Washington demonstrate that things are getting worse in this regard, not better. We aren't seeing an effort to renew our governing principles and actually present a coherent agenda, we're seeing every man, and woman, for himself.

To paraphrase Bette Davis, fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy election.