[dr_who_2]

Class warfare is for Democrats.

[paudio]

Party of and... Interesting. Just be careful that it doesn't try to become the party of everybody that at the end becomes the party of nobody.

[GraniteStateConservative]

The next GOP tax cut ought to be targeted explicitly to married couples with children--or, alternatively, a creative Republican politician might champion a generous baby bonus, a pro-natalist child benefit designed to help defray the costs of children and to encourage larger families.

I always thought it was weird that since Bush was going to have a tax policy that encouraged "families," and since married women are the only women who will vote GOP, that he didn't go more overboard on that tax plan with the child credits, etc. In for a penny, in for a pound, you'd think.

[Clemenza]

Socialist, pseudoBlue Collar conservatism IS NOT conservatism, but "right wing social democracy."

If a person needs the government to "promote their interests" in terms of more government mandates and spending they GET NO RESPECT from this white collar man.

[familyop]

"It would mean matching the culture war rhetoric of family values with an economic policy that places the two-parent family--the institution best capable of providing cultural stability and economic security--at the heart of the GOP agenda."

It won't work, unless our Party is willing to dump the anti-fatherhood feminists, all of the unconstitutional laws (VAWA, Child Support Act, and so forth) passed for them and the bureacrats who live off of the miseries of broken families. Even comments pandering to vulgar feminazis ("milk" "male" "horse") must go. The whole expensive divorce industry with its misogamist, sexually confused psychologists, public school teachers, social workers and lawyers must go. The bosses of our national machine need to stop breaking so many families to keep too many mothers of young children in the labor pool.

If not, count all sincere fathers and all who love them out of our Party in 2008.

[MNJohnnie]

but this season of scandal and disillusionment

Yeah it really helps the Conservative Agenda when Pundits that are supposedly on the "Conservative" side just mindlessly regurgitate the DNC spin lies instead of challengeing the lies. Just another Kristol psuedo-Conservative hit piece. Maybe if the "Conservative pundits" quit spending all their time carrying the Dems water for them, we would get more things done in Congress

[Frank T]

"At this point, it's obvious to all but the most delusional that President Bush's Social Security gambit has failed. Having grasped the third rail with his bare hands, Bush deserves our admiration. But he seriously misjudged the public mood."

So what?

It isn't the Republicans' job to bend to the public-at-large's will. The public must choose between two party alternatives. If that means they choose the Dems, so be it.

This whole Weekly Standard article reeks of a quasi-populist messasge. It says little about citizens maintaining a republic, just what the government can do to "ease" burdens on consumers.

If it is true that real conservatives are but a bloc within the Republican party, and not it's majority, I take confort in this: the most radical leftist Americans comprise about a third of the Democrat party, which they steer, and this party gets about 1/3 of the vote each national election guaranteed. Republicans can count on about a third of the overall population voting for them every 4 years, too. If you need about 1/9th of the overall population to be the leader of the leading party, a super-majority is not required. Just a strong willed activist base, and hard ball politics against the others in your party.

[Frank T]

"Critics will carp that such a party would be trying to be too many things to too many people. But there's a term for a party that attempts this feat and succeeds: a majority party."

And the Soviets were the majority party in Russia for a lifetime. What good did *that* do for anyone?

Majoritism isn't the point. Enacting an agenda is. And the Progressives have been supremely successful at that for over a hundred years. Majoritism will only propagate the progressive movement, rather than letting *their* system fall.