Republicans' Identity Crisis
Key Platforms Are Controlled By Disparate Candidates
As Republicans prepare to cast the first votes for a nominee in Thursday night's Iowa caucuses, their choices stand as a metaphor for their fractured party. Its three-legged coalition of defense hawks, economic conservatives and religious and social conservatives that Ronald Reagan fused in 1980, completing the work begun by 1964 nominee Barry Goldwater, has splintered, and none of the 11 men who entered the 2008 race last year can legitimately claim to ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
