Posted on 11/24/2008 12:18:52 PM PST by Wegotsarah.com
How can the Republican Party rebound? The first step would be to quit letting Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham set its agenda.
A second step would be for Congressional Republicans to actually try to help President-elect Barack Obama succeed in addressing the countrys dire problems offering better ideas where appropriate and opposing just when necessary, not reflexively.
And the third maybe the biggest one would be for GOP governors to use their posts to show the country how conservatives can solve problems, especially the dismal state of American education and its menacing cousin, lagging American competitiveness.
If one governor would fully implement a widely circulated proposal to transform U.S. education based on having most children graduate after 10th grade and using the savings to pay teachers like professionals it could serve as a model for the nation and bring the United States back to world standards.
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OK Mort.....
Who then? Michael Bloomberg? Christine Todd Whitman? Huckabee?
George Pataki? Mitt Romney? William Weld?
Vichy Republicans all
I’ll quote Mark Steyn:
Republicans need to start their own long march back through all the institutions they ceded. Otherwise, the default mode of this society will be liberal, and whats left of the Republican party will be reduced to begging the electorate for the occasional opportunity to prove it can run the liberal state just as well as liberals can.
Since when did the rino mcCain ever listen to Rush?
Nice to see Whitman, the NY Times, and Mort all giving advice to the GOP lately.
The GOP is in a sufficiently weakened state to change it into a more conservative party. This is not the time to jump ship but to reinvigorate it. Starting a new party with little opposition available to thwart Democrats and without adequate name recognition and so many other advantages an established political party possesses just seems like suicide at this point.
Mort’s a lib thru and thru. ‘Nnuf said.
Mark
Gotta agree with you there. The media malpractice wasn’t a left wing thing only. They used it against the right as well.
So let's not try to improve education or give families choices about where they send their kids to school...let's just pay the teachers more and filter out the kids that are deemed "unworthy".
That's got to be one of the most stupid things I've ever heard.
There is nothing wrong with your television set. We control your candidate selection. We control your news. We control your radio.
-PJ
I agree... but to think anyone should take conservative advice from Kondrake is ludicrous. Laura Ingraham raked him over the coals on his comments Friday night on BOR and he didn’t have much to say for himself (that as worth listening to, that is).
“using the savings to pay teachers like professionals”
I don’t know what this means. Does he mean they should be paid like “professionals” in other (competitive) fields? They already get paid above market level, given that they work for a monopoly and have politically powerful bargaining power. Simply giving them more money won’t confer any economic benefit. If anything, it will encourage them to do more of what they’re already doing.
Now, if we opened the field up to some form of actual competition, then there would be an incentive to do better. Of course, most of the current crop of teachers wouldn’t like it. But they can be replaced.
Us too.
LOL, me too.
You want me to ignore your political advice? Well, if you insist...
Mark
As I remember, Mort was pissed that the Amnesty bill got clobbered.
I lost all respect for Mort when he said the following on The Beltway Boys discussing embryonic stem cell research:
‘Well everyone knows that it isn’t really a baby.’
True conservatives really make these RINOS angry, don’t they?
“just sawy screw the GOP and focus on a Conservative Party movement”
Maybe we should take over the Libertarian Party. Those people don’t know what the hell they’re doing either, but at least they’re marginally less cemented in politics as they are.
"What the Republicans need are more John MeCains & Joe Liebermans! "
The question in all of this is whether or not Christian conservatism is a subset of the Republican Party or the Republican Party is equal to Christian Conservatism.
If the Republican Party is no more than Christian Conservatism, then lets just be honest and rename it the Christian Conservative Party.
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