Under the inspirational, if egomaniacal, leadership We continue to believe that Colin Powell is a major He is obviously Unless, WASHINGTON — The caller could barely contain his ”The media," responded conservative talk radio host For at least a decade, the political right has dominated ”The strategy all along is to transcend the swamp from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n Unholy Alliance<\/a> – related analysis from the Dowbrigade<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As predicted in this space as early as last November, the moderate wing of the Republican party ("Rational Republicans") is feeling its way towards a "Middle Path" strategy in preparation for an eventual split with the "Evangelical Republicans" and a … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/dowbrigade.com\/images\/McCainfite.jpg\")
As
\n predicted<\/a> in this space as early as last November, the moderate wing
\n of the Republican party ("Rational Republicans") is feeling its way towards
\n a
\n "Middle Path" strategy in preparation for an eventual split with the
\n "Evangelical Republicans" and a strong run at the Presidency in 2008. <\/p>\n
\n of John Mc Cain, they are reaching out to moderate Democrats, "Realists"
\n who realize that the traditional Democratic party is dead in the water
\n and taking on bilge faster than they can bail.<\/p>\n
\n player in this emerging coalition, but as astute observers will note,
\n he is nowhere to be seen. In the considered opinion of the Dowbrigade
\n he is laying low publicly but extremely active behind the scenes, pulling
\n strings and praying he didn’t stay aboard the Bush battleship too long
\n to avoid being infected
\n with the Bush plague in the minds of the electorate. <\/p>\n
\n praying for that salvation of career politicians in the age of sound
\n bites and rapidly revolving news cycles – the impaired memory of the
\n electorate – but his dog and pony show in front
\n of the
\n United
\n Nations is going to be hard to forget, and easy for electoral opponents
\n to drag out of the archives in all its self-righteous prestidigitation.<\/p>\n
\n of course, that opposition is the Bush Regime itself, which would
\n be put in the contorted position of exposing the
\n perfidy of the ex Secretory of State while avoiding the fact that
\n said perfidy was at its own behest. We look forward to an entertaining
\n and amusing campaign…<\/p>\n\n
\n anger. ”Who appointed Mc Cain to be head of the Republican Party?" he
\n asked.<\/p>\n
\n Laura Ingraham.<\/p>\n
\n Republican primaries, making it difficult for moderates such as Mc
\n Cain to emerge as the party’s nominee for president. But with the Monday
\n night
\n agreement, greeted with dismay by interest groups on both the left
\n and the right, the Arizona senator threw down an early gauntlet, openly
\n defying
\n the party’s conservative base.<\/p>\n
\n fever of the right, and build a different kind of coalition — with
\n fiscal
\n conservatives, national defense hawks, and moderates who are discomfited
\n by the influence of the religious right," said Marshall Wittmann,
\n a former top Mc Cain aide and onetime legislative director for the
\n Christian Coalition.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n