McCain's Downfall: Republican Foreign Policy

Washington Post by Fareed Zakaria | Nov. 10, 2008 (Opinion)

Ideas matter, Richard Weaver once wrote, and the Republican Party has
become a party bereft of ideas or trapped by the wrong ones. The
Reagan-Thatcher revolution of low taxes, deregulation and tight money seems
irrelevant to the problems of underregulated financial products, huge
deficits and a deepening recession. The Republican Party's social program
is out of tune with an increasingly young, diverse and tolerant electorate.
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Derek Hawkins
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 by Derek Hawkins - Nov. 10, 2008

Zakaria portrays McCain's defeat as not just a rejection of the candidate but a repudiation of a generation of Republican unilateralism, militarism and deregulation. This is a line of argument I've seen in other op-eds and analyses, but not framed in the global perspective like this one. Well supported and not excessively critical or partisan -- tastefully done.

As the conservative writer David Frum points out, “College-educated Americans have come to believe that their money is safe with the Democrats — but that their values are under threat from Republicans.”

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