Where's Waldo?
This would be a great time for Bush supporters (as opposed to Republicans) to make the case for their guy. I'll make it easy for you. Just discuss one major policy initiative that's been a success. Specifically, somewhere the administration has done the following: Identified a problem, described policies to solve the problem, publicly predicted the effects of those policies, implemented them, measured the results, and found them to be in line with public pronouncements.
Offhand, I can't think of anything. What have I missed?
We desperately need Republicans in this country to be Republicans again.
Third party politics is alive and well. This third party came into being by gestating inside another, then eating it from the inside out. The GOP of today has only labels in common with traditional Republican principles. The GOP of today is a slouching, awkward beast; dead wires for tendons, the flesh of its policies rotting under bright light, a painful puppet-walk of leprosy. The sponsors of its hate-core are aging, dying -- the young do not share their opinions on color, sexuality, and forced religion. Disastrous fiscal policies have led to questions from even the most faithful, the efficiency-core, who have been asked to turn their backs on the fiscal policies that truly differentiated Republicans. What is left, raging, is the fear-core of the party, whose policies ironically make far more likely the very scenarios they claim to prevent. The last, best hope of the new third party politics is to create a fear-state, a police-state, one in which fear can fill in for the dying strength of the hate-core.
Take back your party. Be for personal liberty, fiscal discipline, and states' rights. Regain the realism that is the GOP's primary contribution to American discourse.
on
| § 3
§ 3 Comments
[ You're too late, comments are closed ]
Come on, Ross, the
Come on, Ross, the administration has conquered the irrational fear of the unknown by blowing it up. They just replaced it with more irrational fear of the unknown.
The only thing we have to
The only thing we have to fear is...the absence of fear itself!
;)
Afghanistan, for starters.
Afghanistan, for starters.
Your characterization of the party is, by the way, completely off base. Describing the central part of a party you disagree with as it's "hate core" is hardly a good way to invite discourse, or indeed to convince them to change their minds of anything. You call someone a member of a "hate core" and they won't agree that the sun rises in the east. (Of course, they're probably all flat earthers, so that won't matter anyway.)
If I was the only conservative you knew, would you describe my beliefs this way? Do you think that my beliefs are an insignificant minority among republicans?