me & karl: two peas in a pod.

On January 11, I argued that Republicans and conservatives are making the same mistakes that the left did over a decade ago, when we got comfortable in our position as the bonafide leaders of America and never questioned whether or not liberalism would ever be the lesser of the poltical ideologies.

Either Karl Rove and I are thinking the exact same things, or Karl owes me a commission fee for plagiarizing my post, or it's becoming clear to everyone with a political mind that conservativism is crumbling into a pathetic pile of used and dirty rags, in spite of its decades of preparation. Today CNN.com reported that last Friday, Rove said the following at an Republican National Committee meeting:

"The GOP's progress during the last four decades is a stunning political achievement. But it is also a cautionary tale of what happens to a dominant party -- in this case, the Democrat[ic] Party -- when its thinking becomes ossified; when its energy begins to drain; when an entitlement mentality takes over; and when political power becomes an end in itself rather than a mean to achieve the common goal," Rove told Republican National Committee members ending a two-day meeting.

"We need to learn from our successes," he said, "and from the failures of others."

Mr. Rove, you can send my payments to your preferred progressive think-tank.

Look at that admission in the second sentence. What Karl is saying in that sentence is that, in spite of its success, the conservative movement's failure is a cautionary tale in what can happen to a dominant party. Nevermind that he tried to juxtopose it with what happened to the Democratic party; he made his case before he stated what his case was. The second half of the statement just further clarifies. Just like with the Democratic party a decade ago, the conservative movement is making the mistakes of a dominant party that gets too full of itself.