One thing is for sure: today's Republican Party isn't Ronald Reagan's Party. They worship the Gipper by being for everything he was against.
I just can't figure people like Chaffee. They're not socially conservative, and they sure as heck aren't fiscally conservative, so what makes them want to be in the GOP?
If the GOP Congress abandons the Bush tax cuts and continues spending like a drunken sailor, it will no longer be home to conservatives. PresBush was successful in his first term because he pushed through three significant tax cuts that together gave more tax relief then Reagan's 1981 Tax Reform Act. Thereby removing funds from the budgetary coffers and leaving less for the feds to spend. Bush`s spending on social programs like education and medicare are the policies of a big governemnt Republican and out of step with the conservative agenda and the recent policy agenda of the GOP. To remain successful, the GOP needs to get back to political planning that promotes policies like the Contract With America.
Government has become too much in your face. We need them to do their job. Insure our sovereignty, and protect the Constitution. We need to be proud to be American once more. That is what Mr. Reagan would have wanted.