I think there are a lot of secular repubs that really do want to change the party back to where it was before reagan.
Politics and principle don’t always dance well together, one always has to lead the other.
As for me, I cannot forsake my principles for pragmatism and this may just more rapidly precipitate the coming amicable divorce that’s already brewing. There are certain principles for which there can be no compromise:
1. Excessive taxation (theft)- are we really principled when we stand for a little less theft as republicans. Not me, I’d slash the federal spending by 65% if I could. Will RudiMcThomsoney?
2. Abortion - The pro-life movement doesn’t believe someone has a “choice” to kill someone - penumbra’s aside.
3. Gay marriage - You’re either for it or against it and you think it matters or it doesn’t.
Etc etc.
Republicans have been retreating for years and will continue, just as we did in the 30’s. Want proof - look at the 3 TRILLION dollar budget floating up there in the den of theives called the Congress. We republicans really made principled stands on the average taxpayers money didn’t we! Republicans shouldn’t puff their chests out to big because they reduced the rate of spending increase from 10% down to 6%. What COURAGE. At least FDR, LBJ and Hillary had/have the courage of their convictions. They intended and intend to bring in socialism. Do you think RudiMcThomsoney will stand forcefully on the issues I listed above and stop the move towards socialism - hardly.
Prediction: If by some odd chance that one of them wins, as typical with republicans, I can already hear RudiMcThomsoney pontificate how they won one for the average American by “forcing” the democratically held congress to only increase the federal budget by 7% instead of the 10% they wanted. And as the frogs in the kettle we are, the heat will increase another 10 degrees.
I say lets get the inevitable over with. I dare say that had the new media been around in the 30’s, we’d have been the North United States and the South United States then.
You are 100% correct! The answer is to not nominate Rudy, and I certainly plan to do what I can to see to it that he’w not the nominee. But if he is, he’s better than Hillary.
We know what kind of judges she would nominate and we know what kind of laws she wants. She’s a sure bet for the things we don’t want to have happen to our country. Even if Rudy is the lesser of two evils at least there’s a chance he would be better than Hillary in many areas.
Not a very encouraging thought is it? My prayer is that we will nominate someone else.