The key failure of the Republican Party lies more with members of Congress than with Bush. While Bush didn’t do nearly enough to rein them in, it was the Republican members of Congress who substituted their particular brand of arrogance and fiscal insanity for that of the Democrats. Bush’s approval ratings – as weak as they are – are still about twice that of Congress.
I’m beginning to come to the conclusion that I, an individual conservative, am the new RINO. If McCain and Arnold and the spendthrifts in Congress represent what the Republican Party is today, then I guess I’m no longer a Republican. When Reagan switched from the Democrats to become a Republican, he famously stated, “I didn’t leave the Democrat Party. It left me.”
It appears the Republican Party has left me.
