Sincerity And Competence Is A Strong Combination.

What Conservatives And Republicans Must Recognize Is That The White House Has Broken With Them. What President Bush Is Doing, And Has Been Doing For Some Time, Is Sundering A Great Political Coalition.

In The 1950s And '60s The [democrat] Party Included Many Obviously Earnest And Thoughtful Liberals Who Supported Goals That Were In Line With And Expressions Of Serious Beliefs. They Believed That America Was An Exceptional Country.

The Tea Party Saved The Republican Party. In A Broad Sense, The Tea Party Rescued It From Being The Fat, Unhappy, Querulous Creature It Had Become, A Party That Didn't Remember Anymore Why It Existed, Or What Its Historical Purpose Was. The Tea Party, With Its Energy And Earnestness, Restored The Gop To Itself.

Mr. Bush Has Squandered The Hard-built Paternity Of 40 Years. But So Has The Party, And So Have Its Leaders. If They Had Pushed Away For Serious Reasons, They Could Have Separated The Party's Fortunes From The President's. This Would Have Left A Painfully Broken Party, But They Wouldn't Be Left With A Ruined Brand,- As They All Say, Speaking The Language Of Marketing. And They Speak That Language Because They Are Marketers, Not Thinkers. Not Serious About Policy. Not Serious About Ideas. And Not Serious About Leadership, Only Followership.

A Great Speech Is Literature.