Bruce Bartlett and Frank Rich have both now predicted "civil war" in the Republican party – Bartlett because of, as Suskind puts it, the conflict between "modernists and fundamentalists" that will come to a head should Bush win, and Rich because of the party's current "untenable level of hypocrisy." I think Bartlett might be right, given the way reasonable folks have been deserting Bush in recent days. But I have to laugh a little bit at Rich's idea that saying one thing and doing another is somehow the sort of thing that a political party couldn't keep doing for a very long time.
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