Arlen Specter
Already it starts. Arlen Specter, who has voted for every one of Bush's appointees, is not conservative enough for the new government. Normally, he would, by reason of seniority, be the next Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He might still get it but he has to bow really low to the religious right in order to redeem himself.
He has been under fire from the fringe that takes credit for the big win last Tuesday and which now controls the party; he ventured to suggest that perhaps a vowed opponent of Roe V. Wade might have some problem getting confirmed as a Supreme. Merely, a factual observation, but the Sensitive Right brooks no dissent.
Some of the remaining more moderate Republicans are trying to save him. Trouble is brewing in River City.
I take this as a sign that the infighting within the GOP has begun. Success will dull their edge, widen there narrow focus and I expect them to begin to have the same internal scraps and rhubarbs that the Dems are always accused of having. The second law of thermodynamics will be applied impartially. Yipppeeee!!!
posted by Bert S. @ 8:20 PM
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Richard A. Viguerie was on Now with Moyers 10/29 I think: his career as a conservative started 50 years ago with direct mail. While he will be supporting Bush, he, like many other conservatives, oppose just about everything Bush has done and plans to do. It was his positions that win or lose, there would be war within the GOP on 11/3.
He, and others like Norquist, do not take the conservative message from election to election: they are, and have been in it for the long haul. In fact, the very language of the conservative movement is developed and distributed. Orloft, I believe, of Berkely, reported on the use of language to frame the issues. One that comes to mind easily is "tax relief": once you use the words to describe reducing taxes, you have already accepted that taxes are oppressive by their nature, and when you reduce them, people get relief, as from disease.
Of course we all know "tax and spend liberal" But how about "reform" instead of change, how about "Clear skies" instead of House bill 266.
A rose by any name does not smell as sweetly. And Zelda Abromowitz has a hard time getting blind dates.
Rove, Norquist, et al: these guys don't blink.
And to a significant number of Americans, God has literally made his choices manifest.
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