WASHINGTON - Conservatives love to quote Ronald Reagan at every opportunity, to invoke him as the exemplar of their ideology. But in their winter of discontent, many on the right are breaching Reagan's 11th commandment, which decrees that no Republican shall ever speak ill of another.
And the target of their ire is President Bush. Bush is spending money like a pimp with a week to live. Commentator Jonah Goldberg At the dawn of a crucial election year -- and with all the polls indicating that the Democrats are poised to make gains in the House and Senate -- the Bush White House is banking on a big, enthusiastic conservative turnout in November. But that will happen only if the Bush base calls a halt to its Bush bashing. |