In taking on Ross Douthat's tendentious piece on abortion, I didn't address his headline, ostensibly the thesis of his piece, that "Abortion Politics Didn’t Doom the G.O.P." Of course not. If the GOP's approach to abortion politics were to doom it, it would not be by driving away people like Kathleen Parker and Max Boot. It will be when the religious right gets tired of promises, promises, promises and no delivery, and the single issue anti-abortion voters either vote for a third party candidate or stay home. What doomed the Republican Party in the 2008 election was the Bush Administration's top-to-bottom, back-to-front incompetence, coupled with a dozen or so too many corruption scandals.
Which isn't to say that, within the foreseeable future, I won't be writing pretty much the same thing about a future Democratic administration....
"A future Democratic administration" . . . this administration actually seems likes it's getting off to a good start, now the Democratic Congress on the other hand . . .
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Right. I mentioned a future Democratic Administration, as I very much doubt that Obama's will fall into the "as bad as Bush" category. If I'm lucky, or unlucky and die soon ;-), I won't live to see another President as bad as Bush; but I think it could happen in the foreseeable future, and thus....
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