I read your piece "Saul Alinsky Takes The White House" [http://spectator.org/archives/2008/11/06/saul-alinsky-takes-the-white-h#comment_5181] with amusement, Mr Hillyer, because your detailed scenario of how the Democrats will take over and enslave us (I'm being somewhat sarcastic here) sounded like a page out of the - guess what? - the Rove Playbook. I have the feeling that you've seen Rove's moves in action and, therefore, can use them in your imaginary scenario. Rove. I daresay, might have written it.
But what's missing is any suggestion on your part that the people who are coalescing under Barack Obama's leadership all, I believe, want to correct what's wrong here. And plenty is wrong. But they aren't blaming; they're too busy getting started; they seem to be interested in not playing the blane-game and, instead, putting people and programs in place to make America a beautiful place again. They're also strong enough to know, for instance, that a filibuster can sometimes hold up progress, as opposed to letting the minority rant and rave.
By the way, one factor that needs to be addressed is why Republicans are now in the minority, and why their influence is shrinking. There's a reason for this and, if the Republican Party is to survive, it must understand this.
To think in terms of it being a battle, Mr Hillyer, is to over-simplify it. Thinking like that is easy and absolves all of the Republicans who went along with the program. The hard work, the heavy lifting, that needs to be done to restore the Republican Party to prominence involves analyzing the current challenges, fashioning a realistic plan to deal with it and correct the problems, and implementing enough of it to prove that it works. Slogans, name-calling, PR and denigrating the "other side" won't work.
Remember, even Greenspan has admitted that he did not fully understand the situation and its impact. He admitted he made a mistake. He told the world that his analysis was flawed.
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