Politically, they’re in the wilderness, with Barack Obama’s popularity stubbornly high, and wide Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress. But there’s also a deeper sense of crisis: a worry within the movement that the Republican Party has lost its identity as the party of ideas. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
Putting "conservative" and "thinkers" in the same title creates an oxymoronic starting point, given that the present GOP is neither conservative nor thinkers. It does not get much better when he puts forth that the invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan were meant to spread freedom. Then he taps into an economist who embraces the free market myth. He adds a sociologist who mistakes correlation for cause and effect. A blogger, and a Palin supporter round out his cast of thinkers.
The GOP has never been the party of ideas. It has been the party of big money with an ability to market bad ideas and foist them on the public against the interests of that public.