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May 14, 2008

Resuscitating The GOP - Time For A New Direction

Topics: Political News and commentaries

Doug Ross (HT - Gateway Pundit) isn't moping about yesterday's GOP Congressional loss. Instead he put together a tip sheet for Republicans:

Like Doug says, indeed, the Republican brand has lost its way. The time has come for citizens to rise up and demand a new Republican Party. He's calling it GOP 2.0, and he's perfectly willing to throw out those "Republicans" who are stuck on stupid -- and are stuck in the GOP 1.0 world.

I think there's going to be a lot of us joining in with him on throwing out the old and bringing in the new. And the points in the ad are the basis upon which all conservatives ought to insist that the GOP move forward from here. And unless the GOP wants to be a tiny little minority in Congress for the next decade, it better occur sooner rather than later.

Read more on the details here ...

Related: Victor Davis Hanson - What's Wrong with Republicans?

Republicans by consensus in Washington need to be less tolerant of sleeze than Democrats, since conservatism and traditionalism are moral precepts. When they engage in tawdry sex, bribery, and influence peddling, they suffer the double wage of hypocrisy -- in the manner supposedly men-of-the-people liberals like Kerry, Gore, Edwards, and the Clintons talk one way and live like 18th-century French kings.

In short, low taxes, secure borders, moral governance, sober government spending, ethical leadership, exploration and conservation of petroleum, and strong defense is what the American public wants -- but those core principles have to be articulated hourly and can't be compromised. In an honest debate, Obama's alternatives to the above would be to turn toward more government, higher taxes, more bureaucracies, more dependence of the individual upon the state, etc. And I can't believe the public wants a prescription that historically simply doesn't work.

Posted by Abdul at May 14, 2008 9:07 PM

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