When the GOP begins its post-Bush departure — roughly after the midterm elections in November, when the 2008 presidential nomination race begins — "big-government conservatism" will probably end up on the ash heap. The party will have to relearn what it used to know: A strong government is a limited government.
The interesting idea there is "post-Bush". Are we prepared for such a landscape? What will the GOP take from Bush? What will the other party learn from him? What will either of them fight for, or against, in his absence?
I ask these questions because I hope that 2009 will be a vastly different landscape. And I'm sure it will be. But I fear it won't be different enough.
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