Obama is the scourge of America, the conduit of the desire for revenge of every group or individual that feels they have been marginalized or excluded in any way throughout our history. That's why even his health care plan, which for most leftists just involves giving some people other people's money, is primarily destructive. That a majority of Americans seem to desire this lashing (albeit, perhaps, more in the abstract than the concrete they are receiving now) indicates a far deeper sickness than the declining popularity of ay politician can cure.
An important function of this blog now seems to be R & D for smears to use against conservatives the Republican Party leaders, consultants and donors find inconvenient.
That something has been done before with unsatisfactory results is no reason not to try it, among other options, under different conditions. Many states don't allow cross-endorsements; if enough people want it and push for it, more states will. Part of my program is to destroy the current duopoly, so it would be good to make such arguments against laws reinforcing the racket. Maybe there will even be opportunities for some left-right alliances along the way.
Wreckers! Pravda couldn't have said it better.
Such a party would have to persuade evangelicals that this is the best way of them to achieve their goals--I don't think it would be such a hard sell--whatever they have gotten from the feds has been chimerical. But the Republicans can't really be a federalist party, even if Reagan made some gestures in that direction--the are the original nationalist party and in many ways still are. It's hard to imagine them, for example, arguing for a less comprehensive reading of the 14th amendment, or for a genuine diversity of institutions across the states (perhaps even different policies towards immigrants, for example).
I'll learn a lot more from a party that starts on the local and state levels and builds a case for federalism and explores the possibilities for subversion and defiance of federal dictates from the bottom up. It will be a good opportunity to learn from the left, who put a lot of effort into making it possible to run on separate lines. Begin small, with redder states, let Republicans compete for endorsements from the new party, and try to gradually displace them. Much better than trying to make a splash with a celebrity candidate for President. Make use of initiatives, promote some of Levin's proposed amendments. Learn from the left and create events--in our case, individual property owners expropriated by the EPA and other abuses. Canonize martyrs, create a outsider, rebellious image. People will figure it out. It's better than wrangling over whether the debt will go up 500 billion or a trillion.
I think that by now those resisting same sex marriage and abortion would be very happy with reforms that remove these issues from the national stage, where a single Supreme Court decision can make them untouchable, to the states. And the libertarians and evangelicals can fight these issues out state by state--the evangelicals might get their way in South Carolina and the libertarians in Colorado. I think for both groups this would be far preferable to the status quo of nationalism and statism. And that addresses your point about coalitions, which are actually much less important for the Republicans than for the Democrats, where very specifically defined groups want very specific things from the government. Evangelicals and libertarians share the desire to be left alone, especially by the feds.
Yes, it would have to be minimalist on foreign policy--you attack us we wipe out the governing class of your country, something along those lines. We are incapable of complexity right now
The Republicans have never been a conservative party--they have just been tilted somewhat in that direction on occasion. And they never will be. Maybe people will start thinking along the lines of a new party: perhaps a radical federalism will unite Tea Partiers, Christians and evangelicals against the statists of both parties. And then consultant-pundit-incumbant complex can have their own party, with no one stopping them from dealing with the Democrats as much as they like.
New party--conservative, constitutionalist, radical federalist. We'll see who can draw up a minimal platform that can bring in libertarians, Tea Partiers and evangelicals.
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