Moral castration

I wondered in an earlier post if we are drifting to the left. It looks more and more like the country is moving leftward. Republicans are either out of touch or captured by their extremist right wing base. The 3 leading Republican candidates are more liberal than the base and are dancing around their positions instead of embracing their principles and values. They have been morally castrated.

David Frum, a former Bush speechwriter, issued a warning to readers of the conservative magazine National Review: “Have Republicans absorbed how much trouble their party is in? To the (limited) extent that we do, we tend to attribute everything to Iraq - as if Katrina, the Schiavo affair, corruption in Congress and the intensifying irrelevance of our domestic-policy agenda did not exist. And so we demand from our candidates ever more fervent declarations of fealty to an ideology that interests an ever dwindling proportion of the public.”

A Newsweek poll last week had the three leading Democratic presidential candidates beating the three top-tier Republicans in every matchup. That’s nine potential races, and nine Democratic victories