Record deficits. Socialist spending sprees. A reckless foreign policy. And an American economy racing toward bankruptcy. Joe Scarborough tells us how Republican leaders in Washington got us here and why Democrats are making things so much worse.

The Last Best Hope moves the American conservative movement into the new century by reviving the forgotten genius of Burke, Kirk, and Buckley. It is more than a blueprint for conservatives’ return to power. It is a road map that is guaranteed to return America to greatness.

Four years ago, Joe Scarborough warned his own party that reckless spending would wreck the economy and ruin their majority. Today, his warning to the GOP is even more direct. The Republican Party must reform or die. Conservatives will no longer blindly follow party bosses who continue to betray their values and weaken their country. With The Last Best Hope, Joe Scarborough begins a new chapter in the conservative movement, and offers hope for a new day for America.


From the Compact Disc edition.

1Increasing military power through restraint

Avoiding an Earthly Hell

We must be judicious in our use of the military. We will fight only when it is in the vital interests of the United States, when our mission is clear, and when the exit strategy is obvious.

--Governor George W. Bush

The morning after George W. Bush made his farewell address to the nation, few media outlets took note of it. In fact, the only national paper to mention the 43rd president's final speech on its front page was USA Today, and it confined the story to a small box that described another article hidden inside.

America's newspapers were focused instead that morning on an airplane that had been taken down from the skies over Manhattan.

TV crews dutifully rushed to the crash site and almost immediately began warning Americans of a grave new danger that would threaten the safety of air travelers for years to come.

Tom Costello of NBC News told Morning Joe viewers that government officials were working furiously to address the problem and that the crisis had become so grave in the nation's capital that cannons were being fired from the end of Reagan National Airport's runways every three minutes.

The Times of London weighed in the next morning with a list of solutions government officials were considering to protect British passengers from this growing menace. The Times reported that some leaders had become so desperate that they were resorting to clandestine poisoning, dog attacks, and advanced radar technology.

Coincidentally, a few days earlier the U.S. government had released a report showing that for the first time in aviation history, the United States had gone two years without suffering a single casualty on a commercial air carrier. So just when Americans thought it was safe to once again climb aboard a plane without fear of attack, their confidence was jolted by a rising threat that now stalked the not-so-friendly skies.

We had again met our enemy in the air over New York City, and what was it?

Birds.

As Tom Costello helpfully explained to viewers, the Canada goose population was on the migratory rise and its effect was being felt on runways across America. That phenomenon had ended in the miraculous water landing on the Hudson River of a US Airways flight.

How ironic it must have seemed to the man who saw his presidency defined by four plane crashes within an hour's time that his farewell address to America was eclipsed by yet another plane crash in Manhattan. He must have felt some pride in the fact that the culprits seven years later were not a group of terrorists intent on destroying our way of life, but instead a group of birds trying to avoid a very loud object flying their way.

Predictably, few in the media noted the difference George W. Bush's presidency had made to the safety of Americans from a terrorist attack. And while debates might rage for years to come over his approval of harsh interrogation techniques or how long enemy combatants could be locked up, those battles will be waged in law schools like Columbia and NYU, instead of inside the concourses of LaGuardia or JFK.

George W. Bush had made the protection of American citizens and the prevention of future terror attacks on U.S. soil his top priority. By that measure--the most important many apply to a commander in chief--the 43rd president did what few Americans thought possible in the weeks following September 11.

He kept Americans safe at home.

While President Bush accomplished that task, conservatives now must assess the cost of achieving that goal and determine how America's actions over the past eight...

 

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