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Entry: What the Hell Happened to Jim? -- James Webb Talks Like Pat Buchanan, Votes Like Harry Reid Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/what_the_hell_happened_to_jim_james_webb_talks_like_pat_buchanan_votes_like#20647 Post contents: This author is spouting more "fusionist" nonsense, the old Republican trick of talking like social populists and governing like aristocratic plutocrats. As if voting with the Republicans in the last 20 years was a "sin"...mostly what the Republicans do is talk about social issues and pass legislation that gives a little more to those who already have the most. Sorry, but there would have been no Nixon "Silent Majority" or "Reagan Revolution" without Democrats like Jim Webb. Karl Rove and the Republican Party think they can rule with 51%, they don't have to reach out to Conservative Democrats and Independents to win elections. But that “fusionist” game is ending. Just as Democrats cannot win elections with only blacks, single women gays, and government workers, and well-to-do white liberals, with cosmopolitan social views, the Republicans can't win with only the Country Club crowd and Wall Street investment bankers voting "conservative" <snicker>. They need the middle class. My family has been Republicans since the Depression era. But now we'd just as soon vote Democrat as voter for a Republican Party that champions militarism and interventionism, outsourcing and globalization, bailouts for Wall Street speculators, tax cuts for the rich financed by the Social Security Payroll tax surpluses, and bankruptcy "reform" aimed at middle class folks like us. All the while voting with a president whose legacy was 7 years of falling wages. Let's also remember that the Republicans and the CEO classes have done NOTHING to slow down the advance of "multiculturism" and "diversity", unrestrained immigration, and abortion-on-demand---in fact they have embraced it. Sent at: 2008 05 16