Both the October 7 London
Economist magazine and my old friend John Fund in the October 3
Wall Street Journal ponder the current demoralization and drift of the Republican Party - Fund's bluntly headed
"The GOP Could Lose in '06." (Following the current suicidal fashion among treezine managers, none of the
Economist story is available online, so I won't bother linking). Neither mentions Bush's immigration policy. We've bashed the
Economist's wilful blindness
before. Fund is a
more complicated case. By contrast, the lookouts on the
Titanic at least
reported the iceberg. A better lookout: legendary Reagan operative Lynn Nofziger, who has quietly but sensationally
suggested (scroll down to his May 19 entry) that the immigration issue may provoke a successful third party by 2008.