Today s voters are much more fickle than they were a generation ago. They also demand results now instant gratification of the political sort. Their attention spans are short, but intense. Once they decide that their elected leaders need a course correction, they ll vote to eject them from office. The huge mistake that political leaders make these days is assuming that any victory is a mandate to turn government into what they want it to be, rather than what the people actually want it to be.
Liberalism is a washed-up relic of the past.
Those are the ingredients for a recipe for GOP disaster four years from now. But Gilmore knows he has only two years to effect the changes that have been his life s obsession. He s going to want to hurry. He s going to bury even more state officials who dare to take issue with his plans. He s going to fill his legislative plate to overflowing with programs steeped in conservatism, and expect his party regulars to march in lockstep.