possibly the most "experienced" group of people ever running foreign policy.
Sam,
I agree that's the other side of the equation - that experience doesn't always translate to success.
Speaking of Bush-Cheney legacy, we maybe seeing a tectonic shift in the republican party with a schism between the intellectuals and the red meat crowd.
There maybe more at stake here than just a Presidential election!
Unease in the Conservative Commentariat
By PATRICIA COHEN
Published: October 18, 2008
Today, President Bush’s policies and the collapse of Wall Street have led longtime conservatives to conflicting conclusions about where the Republican Party should be headed. And the disillusioned commentary of credentialed conservatives like Mr. Will, Mr. Buckley and Mr. Krauthammer may be the sound of a movement splintering at its foundation — a movement whose intellectuals have long been uneasy with, for example, the rising power, in the Bush years, of evangelicals, with their categorical faith in creationism and distrust of scientific reason.
The Times’s Op-Ed columnist David Brooks, who recently described Governor Palin as a “cancer on the Republican Party,” explained in an interview that the movement is now embroiled in a debate: “Should it go back to the core principles of Ronald Reagan or should it go on to something else? That’s the core issue.”
Resolving such fundamental questions can take years, Mr. Brooks said, noting that in Britain, the Conservative Party spent a decade and a half reinventing itself after Margaret Thatcher left office. Following Goldwater’s rout in 1964, American conservatives struggled for 16 years before Ronald Reagan finally was elected president.
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