Via Slate comes five different opinions on the future of the GOP--from Jim Manzi, Tucker Carlson, Douglas Kmiec, Christine Todd Whitman, and Ross Douthat. Kmiec--surprise!--thinks the GOP should be more like Obama, and that we should stop being so hung up on this whole abortion thing.
Christine Todd Whitman thinks...sorry, I fell asleep reading hers. It was a bit dull. Something about how compelling Obama is.
Tucker Carlson says the GOP needs to find a leader "who can speak English." And sadly, after eight years of GWB, I see his point.
Jim Manzi wants the party to return to its middle class roots. He's worried that the American people are growing more and more alienated from the party faithful. Republicans have free market cheerleaders for a while now, but a lot of "real Amuricans" think the whole system needs fixing.
Ross Douthat gives the best advice of all: stop bickering. And I agree. For the love of God! Enough talk about squishes and squashes and hardliners and screwballs and wingnuts and nefarious neocons. Every faction of the GOP has been acting like a twelve-year-old wannabe street tough itching for a fight.
"C'mon! Who wants a piece of me? Oh, you wanna go, fiscal conservatives? Right here, right now! Let's throw down!"
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