[Hawk1976]

I know what to do! The answer is right bloody in front of us.

Anyone else remember how conservatism and by extension Republicans used to embrace ideas such as federalism and states rights? We have degenerated into a mob, I mean all Americans, fighting over highly concentrated power in Washington D.C. America is such a large place that different people are going to solve problems in different manners as it suits them. What seems like a good idea in New York City may be the height of stupidity in Butler, Alabama.

What do we get because of these natural differences and concentrated power, New Englanders struggling to control Washington so they can pass laws that Southerners are bound to resist and vice versa.

In fact, Republicans after the last four years or so are going to have to go earn back the state's rights crowd, because they did a bang up job of chasing them off.

[Netizen]

In fact, Republicans after the last four years or so are going to have to go earn back the state's rights crowd, because they did a bang up job of chasing them off.

They've chased a lot of people off. They need to regroup. Decide what they are going to stand for, define their platform and quit morphing every week. People distrust those that say one thing and do another.