Mr. Moran:
“Both great wings of conservatism need each other. They complement and complete each other.”
Perhaps so, but there won’t be any “complementing” or “completing” when the conservative base is served up a RINO like McCain.
You post, yet again, (and how many of these type of posts have you written now?), that the GOP needs a bigger tent.
That all depends on whether you want to start finding reasons to support conservatives and choose candidates that represent their agenda, rather than finding reasons to support democrats.
“…conservatism to make its way back to credibility.”
You’ve got it backwards…it isn’t for the conservative movement to re-establish its’ credibility, but rather for moderates to re-examine which philosophy best suits their aims.
I think the Alleged Hawaiian’s administration will go a long, long way towards helping that re-evaluation.
“All agreed that in order to regain credibility, conservatism had to first reunite the warring factions (something it was pointed out that Reagan did successful following the defeat of Gerald Ford).”
Reagan did surprisingly little to unite the GOP, Mr. Moran. The Rockefeller/career politician wing of the Party simply had nowhere else to go.
And Carter’s policies were bad enough that the electorate was frankly disgusted with his floundering around. Couple that with the mauling that Ted Kennedy inflicted on Carter throughout the 1980 primaries for not being “Liberal ENOUGH”, and Reagan’s victory was largely assured.
People tend to forget that we owe the Age of Reagan in no small part to Ted Kennedy’s candidacy.
