Is the Republican Party Dead? — Not If It Shapes Up

Not If It Shapes Up

IT IS CERTAINLY possible to understand Clare Boothe Luce’s somber mood. She and we write in the aftermath of the defeat of Ford’s caretaker regime—a politically limited entity dedicated to decency, credibility, and other imponderables found in the eye of the beholder and the gaze of the media. The Ford regime was certainly in no position, politically, to do what must be done for both the country and the Republican Party.