Inarticulate, but not stupid
MSNBC, after five years, asks the question Liberals have asked for years. This is from former Representative Joe Scarborough (R), turned pundit for "Scarborough Country."
The interesting thing is that he is the best thing for the opposition. People are doing a "cut and run" from the Republican Party with the quickness.
- Cracks appear in NASCAR voters' Republican loyalty.
- William F. Buckley has said "Bush Not A True Conservative."
- Pete McCloskey, a lifelong Californian Republican says he wants a Democrat majority in 2007.
- Richard Viguerie, a conservative icon and key architect of Ronald Reagan’s 1980 victory has recently published "Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause."
“Sixty-five months into Bush's presidency, conservatives feel betrayed... The main cause of conservatives' anger with Bush is this: He talked like a conservative to win our votes but never governed like a conservative.” -- Richard Viguerie, “Bush's Base Betrayal,” The Washington Post, Sunday, May 21, 2006"
- The Oracle was once a Conservative.
- John Dean, who considers himself a "Barry Goldwater Republican," has written a book entitled "Conservatives without Conscience."
- Chuck Hagel says, "I think we've (Republicans) lost our way."
- Tiberi latest Republican to break step with Bush "I can’t defend how the president laid out the need for (going to war in Iraq). I don’t support Rumsfeld."
- John Danforth, Republican shortlisted to be Bush's Vice President to lay out most explicit case for gay rights; Blasts Frist, GOP handling of Schiavo case.
- Video: Bob Schieffer says that five years after 9/11 and the president is having a hard time selling his policy to Americans, including those in his own party.
- Wave of Party Switchers Hits Republicans: Citing extremism, more GOPers are joining the Democrats
Oh, there's more, much more.
For those who feared a "One-Party System" it will happen, just that it'll be Democrats. Republicans will be well represented by new Lieberman's and Clinton's.
