I am beginning to experience serious rumblings of change within myself on the "win in 2008" thing.
The Republican party's "media annointed lemons" (I think that's how one FReeper put it a few weeks ago) seem bent on delivering low-sodium liberalism when it comes to advocating government "solutions" to social and economic -- i.e., freedom, issues. The only thing that makes them different is that they want less of it. They don't see that "it" perpetuates more problems, not fewer. And they don't look like Republicans to me, so I have no enthusiasm in voting for them.
If Republicans win with this kind of low-sodium liberalism, we are corrupting our own freedom. That's not winning, that's strangling Republicanism. I'm getting to be (didn't used to be) like another poster or two I read around here. Cripes, let the Democrats have it. Let them OWN that.
They'll rightly get the blame when things screw up, and more important, Republicans will have an identity that contrasts with Democrats when they inevitably come in to clean up.
Any philosophical Democrat/Republican divide lacks that contrast today. Today, Republicanism seems prefer blending in with Liberalism, only on the angle that the Republican way is leaner -- the Republican mind-set in Romney, McCain, Giuliani (and Gingrich with the global warming horse manure) are like dark chocolate democrats where milk chocolate democrats rule.
Or something like that!
That’s why I said that in order for Fred to win he has define his Presidency.
I can guarantee you this. If Hildebeast is elected President, we are going to have European Socialist in the White House until the mullahs blow us up.
GOP does not equal conservative.
Selling the GOP as the “Party of Conservatism” has obviously been a very good marketing schtick, but that’s all it is: a marketing schtick. The reality is that the GOP is just slightly less enamored with socialism than it’s counterpart.