May
9, 2006:
Query then whether a conservative rebellion
against the entire GOP leadership agenda, excepting war strategy,
is the only way for Republicans to keep Congress and the vitality
necessary for ‘08. Query when the last time such a thing has
happened — and whether we aren’t headed for an extraordinary
moment in 2008 when the national realignment Rove had been dreaming
of turns out to be less about party and more about philosophy.
There are more anti-Bush conservatives now, I think, than ever —
paleocons and paleoliberals who share an unadventurous reticence in
foreign, as well as moral, policy. You heard it here first that
this is the critical swing vote over the next two
years…
That line about “excepting war strategy” is now dated.
Neolibbocons, Conservolationcrats — this is only the
beginning.