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The Good, The Bad and The Conservative

by Hal_10000

TheNextRight and Culture11 are looking at the best-case scenario after this election:

Overall I’d say the best case for conservatives is an Obama Presidency whose overambitious agenda provokes a GOP backlash in the 2010 midterms, causing a chastened Obama Administration to focus on bipartisan entitlement reforms that only a Democratic president could pass. As I think about it, what I’m saying is the best we can hope for is another Clinton Administration sans the affairs while the right regroups, casts aside the corrupt yes men who enabled the Bush Administration to do so many un-conservative things, and develops a coherent, appealing domestic agenda. My assumption is that such a process could not proceed with John McCain and Sarah Palin in the White House.

and the worst-case scenario:

The worst case scenario for the Right is a reorientation — of agenda and of infrastructure — to adopt the Left’s policy framing and compete on the Democrat’s agenda. Rebuilding the Right’s Movement in that direction would take the wrong lesson from the current cyclical swing towards Democrats. When the pendulum swings back the other way — when voters grow tired of the excesses and failures of Democratic policies — the Right must offer a clear choice; a vision genuinely distinct from the Left. If the Christian Democratic vision succeeds, the Right will find its worst case scenario has come to pass. That outcome does not depend on the winner of the 2008 election.

The hard work starts now.

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