The future of the GOP...

Does George Bush want a Republican to occupy the White House upon his exit? Could he actually want Hillary Clinton to be the next President?

I have stated in the past that I suspected the Clintons of helping George Bush defeat John Kerry in order to open the Democrat nomination for Hillary in 2008 instead of forcing her to run a primary against Kerry's VP in 2012.

The President has given us many reasons to wonder about his motives in office.

He has failed to secure our southern border, he has failed to control the growth of federal spending (in fact he has greased the skids for it to expand more than anyone since LBJ and his Great Society), he has failed to make significant progress in the Iraq War after having admitted that his pre-war warnings about Iraqi WMD threats were greatly overblown, and he has now chosen to put two unknown lawyers onto the Supreme Court instead of two well-known jurists with a clear record of Constitutional rulings.

Couple all of that with the President's economic policies which have been used as a weapon by the left media to convince people that tax cuts should be implemented for people who don't pay taxes to begin with, and you've got a Republican party which seems to stand for nothing other than increasing its own power by ignoring its stated principles and the core values of its typical base voter. (Remember, most American voters have been educated in our pathetic government schools and thus have a limited understanding of basic economic principles.)

George Bush was reelected in 2004 by a majority of people who held their nose at most of his policies but who wanted to give him another chance at redemption by remaking the federal judiciary. Now that he has twice failed to do so, and with the takeover of the Republican party by the big spending, War mongering "neocons", the paleocons who keep these supposed conservatives in power have had enough.

The Democrats will make some strong pickups in 2006, and the emerging wing of the Republican party of Arlen Specter, Lindsay Graham, Olympia Snowe, Lincoln Chafee will be the cause. Will Senators like Jeff Sessions of Alabama and the others towards the far right have the will to take the party back for the conservatives before Hillary Clinton's name appears on a national ballot?