When you compromise with evil you become evil. The Republican party has been a disappointment for decades. When was the last time that you heard any Republican advocate eliminating a federal department? And taxes? They are always proposing more effective ways for the government to take our money (fair tax or flat tax?). Republicans are always quick to point out that their tax cuts will bring in even more money. And their fans cheer this notion! How about less money and power for the government.
And all these compromises just get us blamed for the mess. It’s the free market that caused the collapse. George Bush is an anti-regulation, anti-government zealot. NOT. NOT!!
The party stinks.
I remember when Jeffrey Hart said Bush was not a conservative, but a “Christian socialist.” People on FR bashed him for saying that, but it was the truth.
Ron Paul did but conservatives maligned him as a kook and nutcase.