| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: Politix |
| The three branches of the Republican Party: please let's all get along! |
| 2008-01-25 |
| David Frum neatly dissects the political arguments like those we've indulged in here...in the New York Times (!). Via Lucianne.com, so you may or may not have to register. I think it's worth it, if only so that the Grey Lady's advertisers know what actually attracts intelligent readers. A taste: WHY is the Republicans’ three-legged stool wobbling? Why aren’t economic, social and political conservatives pulling together during this primary season the way they have in the past? To understand, let’s imagine that we had three conservatives in the room with us — and that they said exactly what was on their minds. The Economic Conservative: It’s not my fault that we’re in such trouble. You foreign policy conservatives got us into this endless war in the Mideast. You’ve driven up oil prices and busted the budget. And you social conservatives: Your obsession with same-sex marriage makes us look as if we’re from the Middle Ages. The Social Conservative: You’re blaming us? It’s our votes that pass your tax cuts — and what do we get in return? Of course you can’t understand why we care about the marriage issue. You’re rich and secure and highly educated. The divorce rates for people like you have plunged since 1979. With your big new salaries up there, mothers can quit their jobs and stay home with the children — while your illegal-immigrant housekeepers make the beds. Down here, though, it’s still the 1970s. Our wages are stagnant. Both parents need to work. The Foreign-Policy Conservative: Have you people gone crazy? Have you forgotten there’s a war on? And that we’re in real danger of losing? Don’t you have any sense of priorities? |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Oh, it's just the little thing like a document that begins "We the People of the United States...", not 'We the People of North America', or 'We the People of the United Nations'. Seems a number of those 'Republicans' forgot they took an oath to that piece of paper. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-01-25 16:33 |