The Greatest Snow on Earth

I just returned from Alta. The powder was incredible.

Breakup of the Republican Party

In today's Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan wrote:

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. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues.

Regrettably, Ms. Noonan is right. President Bush also seriously damaged the Republican Party on foreign policy, having reversed course on North Korea, embraced Syria, and accepted a nuclear Iran.