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Entry: A post-neocon? Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/a_post_neocon#25763 Post contents: Chances are, we'll be hearing quite a few "culpas" from the neocons in coming months. After all, it's mid-spring and they're feeling the chill in Dumboland. This wrap-up of the GOP's elephantine woes is via yesterday's Politico.com: "In a piece published in Human Events, the Republicans’ onetime captain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, warned his old colleagues that they face “real disaster” on Election Day unless they move immediately to “chart a bold course of real reform” for the country." "And in a closed-door session at the Capitol, National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) told members that the NRCC doesn’t have enough cash to “save them” in November if they don’t raise enough money or run strong campaigns themselves." I smell write-off. The party will hold off and hope President Obama amateurishly bobbles the ball - and they can re-emerge in 2012. Or - GORSH! - 2016. This year is tubbed: McCain fronts a package lobbied-up and neocon-heavy, and he can't/won't shake off the Iraq War from the bottom of his shoe. Add to that his economic grounding seems limited to abacus technology - and his recovery ideas offer crumbcake to restive peasants - and the Republicans are looking at disaster, top to tip. This could be an ass-kicking a'la 1932, when Hoover's intransigence and inaction in THAT desperate era turned out the party for two fat decades. If that occurs this year, there's NO WAY the neocons won't be hung with the debacle; they will, overnight Nov. 4, become as welcome as a smoldering fart at a perfume counter. That's the upside, come the fall. Sent at: 2008 07 06