Coalition crack-up?

Cuccinelli is far from the best choice for Virginia

George Will deserts the losing Republican candidate and endorses an even more losing libertarian out of ideological sympathy.

As I commented at BooMan,

The real fissure widens.

Between the Reaganite, Wall Street class warriors and the Christian theocrats.

Not between the radical, by-any-means-necessary political terrorist and the "moderates" who were not ready to ACTUALLY drive the country over a cliff, as so many conservative pundits demanded.

The very name of the conservative movement has been a lie since the dawn of the Progressive Era.

Those like Will want to destroy every vestige of American social democracy and American progressivism creating a plutocrat's paradise that never before existed in the US or elsewhere.

The Christian right wants to replace American secular government at the state and federal levels and smother American secular society with government enforcement of God's will, as determined by the Christian (mostly Protestant) clergy of America.

Neither group has any essential sympathy for the other, theirs being a mere marriage of convenience in the Republican Party and in the media images of pols like Gingrich who denounce the two things about the real America they separately hate as if they were somehow one, what America has of secularism and what it has of socialism.

And it was the Wall Street plutocrats who held the nation hostage, recently, demanding major concessions on their agenda in return for not destroying the American and world economies.

Nothing in it for the Christians but guilt by association.

Had the nitwits behind the hostage taking included some convincing goodies for the Christian right we would not be watching as THIS fissure widens, right now.

But I suppose it will all settle down and the fissure will heal, yet again, until and unless the Wall Street wing feels it can win elections without the Christians.

Or maybe not.

A second thought.

Will supported the hostage taking, as did Pat Buchanan and many other long term mouthpieces and leaders of the conservative movement.

Both in fact urged the Republicans to go ahead and drive the country off a cliff and blame Obama for it, if he refused to give in.

If, like Jim DeMint, they think all means short of naked civil war fair to advance their agenda then maybe Will has just drawn the conclusion that the Wall Street Republicans can succeed even if all they control is the House, using further and relentless attacks on the government and economy of the nation.

And he may think that means they don’t need power outside the reddest of red states.

So they can do without the ground troops of the Christian right, folks they cannot do without if they aim ever again to win the senate and/or the White House.

Hmm.

Update, November 2.

But the real plutocrats stand to lose big in any crash. 

Not all of them, no. 

Some literally on Wall Street could profit greatly. 

But most would lose heavily. 

They support the tactics of the radicals only as bluff. 

But the radicals are more like a doomsday machine for their plute masters than like cool-headed card players. 

That is what has made the threat credible. 

Realizing this, will the plutocracy support the next round of hostage taking or will they, frightened as much as us little people by this very close finish, try to undermine the conservative fanatics who made all this happen?