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The Spectacle Blog
In his New York Times piece today, David Brooks says that the GOP presidential nominee’s ideas don’t matter that much:
…this is not a party riven by big ideological differences. This is not Reagan versus Rockefeller. Whoever wins the nomination will be leading a party with a cohesive ideology and a common set of priorities: reform taxes, replace Obamacare, cut spending and reform entitlements. The next president won’t have to come up with a vision, just execute the things almost all Republicans agree upon.
Brooks is (in this passage, if not the rest of his column) sounding a bit like Grover Norquist:
Now the Republican Congress has its tax reform and entitlement spending reform written down. It’s the Paul Ryan budget plan, which received 235 House and 40 Senate Republican votes.
They are not looking for a candidate with ideas. They want one who can win 270 electoral votes and sign his or her own name.
Congress will provide the legislation and the pen.
Brooks’s column is a defense of Mitt Romney as the Republican frontrunner. He doesn’t mention that Romney could get a head start on signing Ryan’s ideas into law by endorsing Ryan’s replacement for Obamacare.
Anommynous| 10.4.11 @ 4:29PM
True for the domestic agenda, but Republicans seem a bit less united recently on the foreign policy front.
Derek Leaberry| 10.4.11 @ 5:44PM
The Republican Party base is also at odds with the Republican elite on immigration.
Kyle| 10.4.11 @ 5:56PM
And what do we want to replace Obamacare with? I hope it's not just a Republican version of Govt. run healthcare.
Teflon93| 10.4.11 @ 7:27PM
If Republicans buy whatever David "Perfectly-creased pant" Brooks is selling in 2012 after the shellacking we took in 2008, we deserve the 3rd party challenge that will ensue.
RINOs are dead. America is crying out for conservative leadership.
Will the GOP deliver it?
Lista Email | 10.4.11 @ 8:58PM
Nice... Thanks.
RJ| 10.4.11 @ 10:05PM
And neither Brooks nor Norquist is correct. There is a big difference between Republicans like John Boehner and Senator Tom Coburn. The Boehner block always seems to find a way to thrown in the towel and explain why they can't stop Democratic measures, while Coburn has done as much as anyone man could do to slow down the wasteful spending train.
If we want a meaningful victory in 2012, we need to be sure that the GOP candidates not only say the right things, but have the political character and courage to push them through. We need a "war" general, not a "parade" general.
Quartermaster| 10.5.11 @ 12:22PM
Obamacare needs to be repealed and replaced with nothing. FedGov has no constitutional authority to be involved in that area.
DefGov simply needs to take the constitution by the 4 corners and read it. Then live in compliance with it. The statists in both parties will squeal, but that's tough.
JP| 10.5.11 @ 12:26PM
There is an ideological divide within the GOP. Perhaps it is not as obvious as the Rockefeller vs Reagan split; however, it is there just the same. Perhaps, the best way to look at the problem is Statist vs Conservative-Liberatarian. At the end of the day, the issue is whether the State is empowered at the expense of the individual. One must look at each politician and see if he/she has the will to see something like repealing ObamaCare through. Does Mitt or Perry real loyalties reside with governmental institutions? Campaign rhetoric alone does not uncover these sentiments. And we can be assured that few people will ask the right questions.
Dai Alanye | 10.5.11 @ 2:24PM
Brooks and Norquist are both silly twits. True, Republicans are united on the importance of ridding the nation of Obama and minimizing the political clout of Reid, Durbin, Pelosi, Frank, etc. After we've won, though, the ideological differences within the party will clearly stand out. It's then we must strive for conservative unity, and it won't be easy.
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