Two Three thoughtful and fascinating posts over at Americablog raise the possibility of a wide-scale GOP implosion over the Miers nomination. Conservative disappointment with Bush’s choice doesn’t seem to have abated overnight – if anything, it’s intensified. The right seems very upset indeed to have George W. Bush revealed for what we on the left have long thought he is: a shallow man who doesn’t care about causes, ideologies, or movements, unless they happen to personally benefit him or his friends. It’s all about the power, and it always has been.
I raised the possibility of a major GOP implosion several months ago, wondering whether the Terri Schiavo calamity (among others) hadn’t finally shattered the uneasy and ultimately untenable alliance between corporate elites and cultural conservatives that has managed to elect Republicans for way too long. Terri Schiavo wasn’t quite enough. Maybe Harriet Miers is.
Will the social conservatives blow up on a question mark though? Since there’s no reason to think that Miers is pro-choice* and Bush has said that she’s A-OK, I don’t see where the event is that stimulates the explosion.Maybe it won’t be big and exciting. Maybe it will just be a slow deflation of the energy behind the social conservatives, relinquishing them to sideline cheerleaders on a national scene… * or otherwise lib’rul
To clarify – corporations are all over the political map.The split is between social and philospohical conservatives.