McCain's Downfall: Republican Foreign Policy
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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The Republicans will fight their civil war, in large part, over the question: What is the political center of the ever-evolving United States and do we want to politically appeal to it? If the old (traditional) view wins, expect a genuine fifty-state strategy and possible sweep from Obama in four years.