These poor women trying to "save" the Republican Party


Good Luck with That (Redux) Governor Whitman

Another day, another op-ed from a moderate Republican woman trying to convince her Party to focus only on one little part of the old Republican Party's agenda. This time it's Governor Christine Todd Whitman, and she wants to remember halcyon days when the Party was only known for:

"...fiscal restraint, less government interference in our everyday lives, environmental policies that promote a balanced approach between protection and economic interest, and a foreign policy that is engaged with the rest of the world."

All due respect, the Party hasn't been known for any of that in eight years, and I don't even think it's been known for most of that in 30 years.

So I say to you: Maybe that is NOT what the Republican Party stands for anymore. Parties change. Whitman's poignant Op-Ed title "It's Still My Party" sounds like the last gasp lament of someone who secretly knows nothing could be further from the truth.

I mean, hey, if you guys want to carry on a nasty internal struggle over the soul of the Party for a few years? Fine by me. It's only going to distract and accelerate your current decline.

But you all are beginning to sound a little co-dependent, my moderate Republican friends. You can't save the Party by sticking around and enabling it. It needs to hit bottom. And maybe it can't do that until a few more Arlen Specters hit the road.

Posted: Thu - April 30, 2009 at 07:27 AM       EmailFeedback

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