While I agree with Glaser that the GOP is broken and needs fixing, consider the following in determing whether McCain is the man to break with the past and create a more robust GOP. From 2000-2006 the GOP had a majority in congress and a Republican President. The President is primarily culpable for the GOP's current problems but if McCain were the leader he purports to be he would have found a way to make 2000-2006 productive. After all, he was a senior senator with tenure, national recognition and a war hero. He had the opportunity to lead. Instead we have regressed on govt spending and made no progress on healthcare, environment, dependence on foriegn oil and immigration. If he wasn't leading change on these topics what was he doing? Nothing, and that's the problem.
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