>>If Ann Coulter is writing stuff like this rant and this mirrors a
>>conservative movement that is fracturing . . .
>
>>Chuck
>
>I wouldn't get too excited about that happening, at least to the
>degree you suggest. The rightwing movement has shifted so much to
>their end over the past 25-plus years that a semi-revolt within the
>ranks over Miers isn't gonna "fracture" their political power and
>clout. If the trogs ditch Bush, so what? There's plenty more in the
>squalid pipeline.
Remember that R. Emmett "Bob" Tyrell wrote a book in the early 1990s about the conservative crack-up. As I recall, his thesis was that Reagan's magic held a disparate coalition together, and without him, it was split city. Funny how the Bush family does that!
Doug