Wilted feather

The Next Right blog was supposed to be a feather in Pattrick Ruffini's cap.  His web page lists Next Right as one of the innovations that will revitalize the Republican party and the conservative movement.  Well, he has walked away from his blog.  Either that or he has nothing to contribute to it.  Now Ruffini should hope that people reading his personal page will not check to see how Next Right is doing.  It's pretty sick.

It turns out that nobody is interested in a blog without content.  The lack of content means lack of new Republican ideas. 

But that doesn't mean the Republicans aren't going in a new direction.  They are.  Leading the way is Glen Beck and the Tea Partiers.  They're dragging the Republican party toward the right, away from the main stream where national consensus lives, and away from truth and responsibility where libertarians claim to be, and away from compassion and forgiveness where Christian spirit was supposed to hold sway.

The good news is that Americans, even those frustrated with Democrats having trouble agreeing on health care reform, will soon enough figure out that the alternative is not fiscal conservatives, but hate filled racist irresponsible incompetents who make Bush, Jr. look like an ace.