In her latest column, out today at the WSJ , Peggy dives into the problems currently coursing their way through the Republican Party and although it reads in true Noonan fashion of doom and gloom, she is once again right on the money.
The Democrats aren't the ones falling apart, the Republicans are. The Democrats can see daylight ahead. For all their fractious fighting, they're finally resolving their central drama. Hillary Clinton will leave, and Barack Obama will deliver a stirring acceptance speech. Then hand-to-hand in the general, where they see their guy triumphing. You see it when you talk to them: They're busy being born.
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They are also – Hill leaders, lobbyists, party speakers – successful, well-connected, busy and rich. They never guessed, back in '86, how government would pay off! They didn't know they'd stay! They came to make a difference and wound up with their butts in the butter. But affluence detaches, and in time skews thinking. It gives you the illusion you're safe, and that everyone else is. A party can lose its gut this way.
Many are ambivalent, deep inside, about the decisions made the past seven years in the White House. But they've publicly supported it so long they think they . . . support it. They get confused. Late at night they toss and turn in the antique mahogany sleigh bed in the carpeted house in McLean and try to remember what it is they really do think, and what those thoughts imply.
Absolutely! The old guard leadership of the Party needs to face the fact that it was their generation who got us here and it's now time to turn over the keys to their kids!
We need new leadership in the Party -- younger men who are not boomer's! Younger men who have shown leadership and a willingness to adapt to the ever changing winds of Washington politics. Younger men who are not afraid to stand up and speak for what they believe in, not what's politically expedient or to keep them safely entrenched.
You see, Democrats (as wrong as they are on the issues) have figured this out and are running a presidential candidate and other candidates who echo's that sentiment.
Democrats win by stealing our issues... Yes! Because we allow them to! We sit idly by resting on our laurels and completely unable to articulate our message.
"This was a real wakeup call for us," someone named Robert M. Duncan, who is chairman of the Republican National Committee, told the New York Times. This was after Mississippi. "We can't let the Democrats take our issues." And those issues would be? "We can't let them pretend to be conservatives," he continued. Why not? Republicans pretend to be conservative every day.
The Bush White House, faced with the series of losses from 2005 through '08, has long claimed the problem is Republicans on the Hill and running for office. They have scandals, bad personalities, don't stand for anything. That's why Republicans are losing: because they're losers.
All true enough!
"Wakeup call" is right! It's time for this party to wake up, stand up, and demand new leadership from those younger men within our party who serve this great nation, not for self, but to make real change. That's right I said it -- Real Change away from old guard Party Politics into a fresh new way of doing business free from back room deals where everyone's out to keep their respective seat. A new way free from corruption and overindulgence. Free from spending the people's money like it grew on trees and most of all... free from holding one's tongue for political correctness.
I believe we can turn this Party around. I'm in it for the long haul! All it takes, is for we the people of the Republican Party, to voice our dissatisfaction and our opinions on how to fix it to make it so!
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