Volume 55, Number 1 · January 17, 2008
They'd Rather Be Right
By Michael Tomasky
Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again
by David Frum
Doubleday, 213 pp., $24.95
They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons
by Jacob Heilbrunn
Doubleday, 320 pp., $26.00
As the voting begins in earnest, what are we to make of the Republican candidates? That the 'conservative base' is dissatisfied with the GOP field is probably the single most common observation of this presidential campaign season. The second most common observation is probably that the Republican candidate, whoever it turns out to be, is doomed to defeat. National Review ran a recent cover story positing not only that the GOP is likely to lose the presidency in 2008, but that the loss may mark the beginning of a long period of wandering in the wilderness as the party gropes to redefine itself after George W. Bush's calamitous tenure. Ramesh Ponnuru and Richard Lowry write:
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