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(( No, because they are whores. Bret.))


Newt, Sarah and a New GOP: "Are Republicans Willing To Call For A
Moratorium On Immigration?"

By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Sometimes party loyalty asks too much," said JFK.

For Sarah Palin, party loyalty in New York's 23rd congressional
district asks too much. Going rogue, Palin endorsed Conservative Party
candidate Doug Hoffman over Republican Dede Scozzafava.

On Oct. 1, Scozzafava was leading. Today, she trails Democrat Bill
Owens and is only a few points ahead of Hoffman, as Empire State
conservatives defect to vote their principles, not their party.

Newt Gingrich stayed on the reservation, endorsing Scozzafava, who is
pro-choice and pro-gay rights, and hauls water for the unions.

Scourged by the right, Newt accused conservatives of going over the
hill in the battle to save the republic, just to get a buzz on. "If we
are in the business about feeling good about ourselves while our
country gets crushed, then I probably made the wrong decision." How
Scozzafava would prevent America's being "crushed" was unexplained.

The 23rd recalls a famous Senate race 40 years ago. Rep. Charles
Goodell was picked by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller to fill the seat of
Robert Kennedy in 1968. To hold onto it, Goodell swerved sharp left,
emerging as an upstate Xerox copy of Jacob Javits, the most liberal
Republican in the Senate.

In 1970, Goodell got both the GOP and Liberal Party nominations, and
faced liberal Democrat Richard Ottinger. This left a huge vacuum into
which Conservative Party candidate James Buckley, brother of William
F., smartly moved.

Assessing the field, the Nixon White House concluded that, with
liberals split, Goodell could not win. But Buckley might. Signals were
flashed north that loyalty to the president was not inconsistent with
voting for Buckley. To send the signal in the clear, Vice President
Agnew described Charlie Goodell to a New Orleans newspaper as "the
Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party."

The former George Jorgensen, Christine had undergone the most radical
sex-change operation in recorded history.

Liberals went berserk, calling on New Yorkers to rally to Goodell, who
began surging, at Ottinger's expense. Buckley scooted between them
both to win. Hoffman may also. But even if he does not, Palin, a
conservative of the heart, did the right thing.

And the GOP has been sent a necessary message.

For, according to Gallup, 40 percent of Americans now identify as
conservatives—only 20 percent as Republicans. If the GOP is not the
conservative party, it will never be America's Party.

But what does "conservative" mean in 2009? And where do conservatives
come down on the great issues? For what the right is against—any
repeal of the Bush tax cuts, the $787 billion stimulus, Obamacare—is
much clearer than what the right stands for.

In 2010, this may not matter, as the Obamakins rule the roost and will
be held accountable, and Republicans can unite around what they
oppose. Year 2012, however, is problematic.

Then the party must declare itself. And the reality is that the GOP
remains a house divided.

What, for example, is the conservative view of the war in Iraq and the
Bush economic policies that cost the party both Houses of Congress in
2006 and the White House in 2008?

Why did President Bush leave with 27 percent approval? Did Bush
policies the GOP once applauded have anything to do with it?

Was Bush free trade responsible for the decline of the dollar and the
loss of one in four manufacturing jobs? Is globalization still good
for America and NAFTA the deal of the century?

What is the conservative position on reaching out to Russia, as Barack
Obama has done, on bringing Georgia and Ukraine into NATO, and on
canceling that anti-missile system Bush planned in Poland?

"We're all Georgians now!" John McCain declared. Are we?

What is the party position on a "long war" in Afghanistan?

For if America has soured on the war and opposes more troops today,
will America be enthusiastic about soldiering on in 2012, after 1,000
or 2,000 more American dead have been shipped home?

Do Republicans support negotiating with Tehran, or cutting off
gasoline and starting up the escalator to air strikes on Iran's
nuclear facilities that are today under U.N. inspection?

Will the GOP propose to stimulate the economy with tax cuts after four
straight trillion-dollar deficits? Will the Bush line, "They'll pay
for themselves," still be credible after Bush's deficits?

If the largest federal outlays are for Medicare, Medicaid, Social
Security, defense and interest on the debt, followed by education,
housing, homeland security and transportation, where would the GOP use
the knife to balance the budget?

According to Gallup, America is moving closer to the Republican
position on regulations, abortion, guns and union power. But half of
all Americans now favor cuts in legal immigration. Are Republicans
willing to call for a moratorium on immigration to tighten the labor
market and force wages up? Or does the Chamber of Commerce still call
the tune?

Ronald Reagan arrived with new ideas that fit the needs of his time.
Where are the Republican ideas that fit the needs of this time?"

http://www.vdare.com/buchanan/091026_newt.htm

Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his
book State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of
America, can be ordered from Amazon.com. His latest book is Churchill,
Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the
West Lost the World, reviewed here by Paul Craig Roberts.