This quote is too good not to pass along. It's from an opinion piece written by Peggy Noonan for the Wall Street Journal. Here's the "money shot".
"This was a real wakeup call for us," someone named Robert M. Duncan, who is chairman of the Republican National Committee, told the New York Times. This was after Mississippi. "We can't let the Democrats take our issues." And those issues would be? "We can't let them pretend to be conservatives," he continued. Why not? Republicans pretend to be conservative every day.While the quote itself is both powerful and accurate, the most powerful part is not what was said, but who Peggy Noonan is.
Up until very, very recently, Peggy Noonan was a reliable cheerleader for Team Elephant and Bush's little Iraq adventure. Now she sounds more like me. She's too smart to drink the Kool-Aid and knows that the only hope Team Elephant has for viability as a party is to return to its Ronald Reagan roots. Which, I'm sorry to say, I don't believe will ever happen, because the Rockefellerite asshats running the party are all about the One-World Socialist Utopian vision.
When the Republicans are losing people like Peggy Noonan, there's no question that they've completely lost their way and in no way represent conservatives. Or, for that matter, Americans.
