Decries Bush's spending while implying Iraq and Afghanistan was money well spent, praises St. Ron when he was the guy who made fiscal irresponsibility cool...distorting the principles he criticizes Bush and Rove for betraying.  

Events go a long way to determin the changing tide of politics and candidates do the rest.

Events caused americans to give the democrats a chance and Obama burst through the door.

RedState is pleased to announce it is engaging in a special project: Operation Leper.

We're tracking down all the people from the McCain campaign now whispering smears against Governor Palin to Carl Cameron and others. Michelle Malkin has the details.

We intend to constantly remind the base about these people, monitor who they are working for, and, when 2012 rolls around, see which candidates hire them. Naturally then, you'll see us go to war against those candidates.

It is our expressed intention to make these few people political lepers.

certainly an apropriate analogy, for a party that has styled itself (perhaps unconsciously, perhaps not) after a group raised to power by a madman, and responsible for the death of millions, and trillions in destruction.

Those who considered themselves 'traditional conservatives' of the Goldwater type have ground their teeth in frustration for decades at the 'Invasion of the Principle Snatchers' as illustrated by the NeoCons inserting themselves into the fold and then, like a virus, changing the environment to suit themselves. Like with most viruses, that usually means the host suffers and quite possibly dies. That's why the Libbers split off from the Reps back in 1971.

As I once read long ago, "The Devil can quote Scripture for his own purposes". And while the remaining Reps still mouthed Randian philosophy, the former(?) Trotskyites comprising the NeoCons were busy 'quoting Scripture' while doing what they always wanted to, and that is to use the apparatus of government for their own social engineering (and mercantile) purposes. And this is what happens when the music stops during the political musical chair game.

I mean, aside of Seseseko, or Salazar in Portugal, who's really led a truly effective Fascist movement?  In what construct can anyone ever imagine such a movement taking hold in America?  We have no common ethnicity, our commonality is one of ideals.  We also, despite the efforts of the Bush administration, continue to have an abiding belief in individual rights.  And, let's not forget that religious diversity that exist in this country.

As for Socialism and Marxism...c'mon.  The redistributive policies Obama advocates are more relevant to Progressivism than they are anything.  Marxism died with advent of Stalinism.  "Socialism" as practiced recently in France and Latin America has been a failure.  Any idea that such wholesale restructuring not just of the policies of the government but of the actual structure, is ludicrous.