Great article! Two things I wanted to comment on are:
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Republican political veterans go easy on ideology, but they're tough on incompetence.
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The move towards ideology first, and everything a distant second has scared me away from the GOP. I am more of an Eisenhower or Nixon Republican. The neocon ideology is too "fascist" for me and the big federal spending to achieve the goals of their ideology are going to ruin this country if not halted.
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But this is a nation of sophisticates, and every Republican sipping a Bud at a bar in Chilicothe, Ill., who looks up and sees that ad thinks: They're trying to scare the base to increase turnout.
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I'm not so sure about this. There are many sheep who will follow the GOP/neocons where they lead. We see some of that here. And the GOP/neocons are reinforcing this behavior with their alliance with the religious right. They use hot button issues to great effect to keep the sheep on board.
I will be back in the GOP fold myself when the neocon ideology is repudiated, out of control spending is halted/reversed, and they get the federal gov't out of the business of legislating "family values." Oh yeah, and the power of the executive branch is returned to a more balanced state with respect to the two other branches of government.