Reading the Bushes, Father and Son, Out of the GOP

Peggy Noonan writes a "must read" in the Wall Street Journal's Online Journal. In it she entirely disinvests in George W. Bush and his father, George H. W. Bush. This is a major step for a Republican stalwart like Peggy to take. Her bottom line is that W. has behaved in thoroughly un-Republican ways. The meat of the argument is in the first paragraph:

What political conservatives and on-the-ground Republicans must understand at this point is that they are not breaking with the White House on immigration. They are not resisting, fighting and thereby setting down a historical marker--"At this point the break became final." That's not what's happening. What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition. This is sad, and it holds implications not only for one political party but for the American future.