As a moderate independent who voted for Bush (the “compassionate conservative”)I can tell you that the Republican party will have to rethink it’s “big tent” before I would ever give it another glance. Bush’s corruption was fairly transparent after ’04 and yet the entire party circled the wagons around him and abetted his malfeasance. You can’t play guard dog for eight years for policies and crimes that threaten the fabric of this country and expect to come out unscathed.
While you forward your backwoods “just like us” candidates to garner the pick up crowd you govern from board rooms and Wall St cigar clubs. It may take generations to rebuild what the neocon cabal, masquerading as conservatism, has done to our country with the support of the entire Republican party, right down to the last Bubba. America isn’t so short of memory that you can expect another chance to sit at the big people’s table for a long time. Enjoy your petty victories. They will be short lived and farther between in coming years.
