Former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan has her usual insightful weekly columnar observations in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal. Mostly, it’s about McCain and Romney. But then at the end, Noonan lays out these pungent graphs:
“On the pundit civil wars, Rush Limbaugh declared on the radio this week, ‘I’m here to tell you, if either of these two guys [Mr. McCain or Mike Huckabee] get the nomination, it’s going to destroy the Republican Party. It’s going to change it forever, be the end of it!’
“This is absurd. George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. [emphasis mine – MT] He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues.
