The Reagan coalition is falling apart. No longer is the republican party a coalition of small government republicans and what is commonly referred to as the christian right. The republican party is at war with itself. Reagan was a fiscal conservative and a social moderated, but no longer is the former the main sticking point for republican presidential nominees. As the christian right has gained more and more influence, along with getting George W. Bush elected twice, fiscal conservatism has been left for dead. Now as Mike Huckabee a former baptist minister and economic populist moves to the forefront of the republican field it seems now more than ever the party is redefining itself. It is a tug of war to see which way the party will go. Will it elect Huckabee or say a Guiliani who is pretty fiscally conservative but far left socially. It is a battle of polar opposites. Will the fiscal conservatives or the christian right prevail. The candidates who seem to represent both are being left for dead for various reasons. John Mcain who is a staunch fiscal conservative and leans right socially has been destroyed by his endorsement of immigration reform. Ron Paul is too radical for the general and maybe even the primary, and like it or not Romney's Mormonism hurts him with the Christian right.  So the party has no leader  who defines the Reagan Coalition. There is no one to speak for both sides. Bush did and then betrayed the fiscal conservatives. He left the party in shambles with no apparent heir to lead the party, an unpopular war, and a split within his own party as to which way it will go. The Republican party had better find itself or 08 will make 06 look like a good year. The Democrats would be foolish however to believe the country is moving left, the right is just to busy fighting itself.