Beyond Doom & Gloom

Weekly Standard by William Kristol | Nov. 15, 2008 (Opinion)

GOP revivals depend on fresh and bold thinking at the national level. Figures like Jack Kemp redefined Republican economic policy between 1977 and 1980. By 1994, Newt Gingrich and Co. had brought into being a very different Republican party from that of the last days of the first Bush administration. Who are the Kemps and Gingriches today? The field is wide open for the ambitious and the daring. Full Story »

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by Patricia L'Herrou - Nov. 16, 2008

If not doom and gloom, perhaps chaos; the opinion seems to contain inherent contradiction: "fresh bold ideas" (newt gingrich, jack kemp) have changed the party in the past and yet political leadership such as that of sarah palin may be the answer. or is it "effective state governance"?. and if the gop future means "urgent new thinking on economic policy", how can that be sarah palin? the writer doesn't synthesize these individual factors.