PJ Media

I disagree. It is not two distinct events. It is two other phenomenon.

The first is an increasingly militant, activist, and hostile media that is sympathetic to the European nanny-state model and Democrat control of government. The second reason is an abject failure of GOP to provide any loyalty to conservative values. They sold out.

Conservatives worked hard for the GOP to win the House, Senate, and Executive branches only to discover they had new enemies in big-spending Republicans, open borders advocates, casual attitudes toward the supreme court (Harriet Meyers nomination), capitulation in international affairs (Iran, Korea, HAMAS, John Bolton and UN reform), No consequences in the UN oil for food scandal, corruption scandals, and the list goes on. Is it any wonder that conservatives identify themselves as conservatives and not Republicans? They are clearly not the same thing.

Leadership is everything and the GOP has none. The RNC is lame and Bush has a bunker mentality, leaving the leftist leaning media a free pass to define the debate. It would be even worse were it not for the conservative grassroots revolts on Judicial nominations and illegal immigration. Talk radio and a handful of bloggers are not quite enough to compensate for the failure of the GOP to deliver.

Lindsey Graham’s “We’re just gonna tell the bigots to shut up!’ is the shot heard ’round the conservative world. It won’t be forgotten any time soon.