On the pundit civil wars, Rush Limbaugh declared on the radio this week, "I'm here to tell you, if either of these two guys [Mr. McCain or Mike Huckabee] get the nomination, it's going to destroy the Republican Party. It's going to change it forever, be the end of it!"
... Noonan responds,
This is absurd.
George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues.
Were there other causes? Yes, of course. But there was an immediate and essential cause.
And this needs saying, because if you don't know what broke the elephant you can't put it together again. The party cannot re-find itself if it can't trace back the moment at which it became lost. It cannot heal an illness whose origin is kept obscure."
I have to give Noonan credit. Along the way she gave warnings and tirades against what the Republican Party (under King George's "leadership") was doing. Most did not listen. My beef with the Sean Hannitys and Rush Limbaughs (and others) of the world is that they're too close to the trees to see the forest. They are such Party animals they can't smell their own Party's effluent! If you still identify yourself with "the Elephant" you are "party" to International Socialism, Mexico-first, Saudi-loving, money trumps everything - anti-Americanism!
If you can't see that, too bad for you.
Can the Elephant be saved and forgiven? Yes, just as all us sinners can be. But not from the leadership we have now.
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