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in sincerity the role models of the GOP have been strong positive men of character.
today i am seeing a lot of squealing pig behavior. it is not manly or pretty.
somewhere somehow along the road john wayne became marie antoinette, stop it.
More kids are going to school and have learned how to think.
They are now registering to vote.
The born again aspect of politics has saturated their market -
meaning that they cannot convert any more new people to their cause.
The children of the born again politicos tend to be
more liberal than their parents.
The Republican establishment has voted for the government taking over our banks, so they are no longer against socialism.
Palin was supposed to pull in the base while McC appealed to the undecideds - look how that worked.
Most people in the country, when polled, are socially liberal and fiscally conservative. Our current Republicans are socially conservative and spend money like Reagan and Bush.
Bill Clinton was the opposite of this. He cleaned up the economy and was perhaps a bit too liberal in his socializing.
How can the Republicans put together a winning platform when it appears that the country is going in the other direction?
My parents were radically right; When I was a kid ( 50s/60s) we were radically left. Our kids ( my 30-somethings) are rather right wing Younger kids are left agian. I say it will go full circle with another generation.
It goes in cycles just like the weather. But when you look at who the Republicans ran, who doubts why they lost. Good grief! They had much better candidates and I am convinced they took a fall on purpose.
People will get sick of the Dems and the pendulum will swing back to the right. It always happens.
And what the GOP isn't noticing is the fact that as the pendulum swings back to the right, so do most Democrats and Republicans. This means the Dems become center and the GOP becomes even more so of what they are today.
Boy, for a historian you certainly overlook a lot.
Pat Bucannan left the Republican Party because IT left what he calls the Conservative principles.
Regardless of what it SAYS it is the party of big spenders and socialism for huge mega corporations.
Reagan(bless him) and Bush are among the biggest spenders that we have had in government.
I used to BE a conservative.
Back then, the party believed in CONSERVING the environment.
Back then, it was thought we were free to worship as
we chose, but it was anathema to interject religion
into a political discussion.
The ideal of freedom was not there to give
ME freedom to suppress YOUR rights.
I still think this way, which is why I now vote for Democrats.
? i left out a lot? well duh. i didnt even try to include anything. the point here is that the GOP isnt done.
Now where we agree is that the most recent version of the GOP spent like drunken sailors. that has to stop. we certainly agree on that.
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