Bush, a real conservative
No, not Bush. Busch, as in Professor Andrew Busch:
For four decades, the Republican electoral realignment kept rolling due in part to the party’s substantial efforts to persuade the nation of conservative principles. Because Reagan made a persistent argument, today’s 30-44 year-olds who came of age during his presidency are some of America’s most Republican-leaning voters. There is no evidence that a similar “Bush cohort” will arise: in 2004, the youngest voters gave John Kerry his biggest margins. Reagan’s oft-repeated vision of limited constitutional government played an important role in putting Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito on their path to the Supreme Court. It is far from clear that Mr. Bush will inspire the next generation of conservative jurists to take their place.
Read the whole thing. It’s a conservative call to arms. Conservatives need to stand up for the principles that got them here in the first place!
Much of the current conservative malaise is the fault of the Republican Congress, which has become an institution of pork, incumbency, and big government. If Republicans lose either house of Congress this year, it will be entirely their own fault.
— W.C. Varones