Now that Fred Thompson has decided to withdraw from the race for the GOP nomination, it leaves the very real question of what's left for conservatives.
The answer? I don't really know.
Obviously Giuliani is a liberal, Huckabee is a liberal masquerading as a conservative, and McCain, well McCain's practically a Democrat and doesn't even bother trying to hide it.
That leaves Mitt Romney. The only candidate with at least some conservative credentials, I would dare say he's the only candidate anything close to a conservative left in the race.
However, his mandatory health insurance program while Governor of Massachusetts and his promised giveaway to Detroit to try to "revive" the auto industry there show his real stripes.
Is it time to sit out 2008? Won't that just mean a victory for Obama or Hillary?
Let me ask - if the candidate is McCain, what, precisely, would be the difference? McCain is for open borders, expanded government health care, buys into the global warming lie, and otherwise acts as if he was reading a Clinton position paper.
Let's not forget throwing away the right to filibuster in the Senate, thanks to his "Gang of 14" compromise.
Perhaps it's time for something new.
Third parties never work, of course. You need a political party to have a number of supporters in power, or you're just an Independent like Lieberman.
But the GOP has drifted so far away from what it was under Reagan, I no longer recognize it.
So is it time for a Conservative Party? I can't say.
But if the GOP thinks it's a silly fantasy, I suspect the Whigs thought a third party was a non-starter as well.
That third party became, of course, the GOP.
