Crying on Bush's Parade

Christie Todd Whitman is a blight on the Republican Party.

by Rod D. Martin
January 20, 2005

America today again inaugurated George W. Bush, a man whose very real chance to be ranked among the greatest Presidents lies in his ability to enact a genuine conservative revolution: a sweeping vision of liberty at home and abroad. His success may not be assured, but his progress has been at times breathtaking.

And standing in his path (or at least pouting loudly in the corner) with a book timed to rain on his inaugural parade, is that very embodiment of the old Republican eastern establishment Christie Todd Whitman.

Even the title is a whine. But It's My Party Too is exactly how Whitman feels, the last remaining argument of the leftists who just a few years ago boldly proclaimed that same sentiment without its suffixed qualifier.

Whitman's whimper represents the Republican left's white flag in a war which began with Goldwater. Conservatives are no longer battling for the soul of their party: they are mopping up a defeated remnant, much like U.S. forces i…