[Melchior]

Something positive and forward looking: I think that the active element driving the Republican Party is aware that McCain, Palin, Romney and Huckabee are finished. The Tea Party movement will not be denied, and there are young active politicians emerging in New Jersey, Virginia, Wisconsin, Indiana, Minnesota and Florida. Unlike the Democrats, the Republicans are flush with new faces. Thus, I visualize an exciting, wide open race two years from now.
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[highlander_UW]

Something positive and forward looking: I think that the active element driving the Republican Party is aware that McCain, Palin, Romney and Huckabee are finished. The Tea Party movement will not be denied, and there are young active politicians emerging in New Jersey, Virginia, Wisconsin, Indiana, Minnesota and Florida. Unlike the Democrats, the Republicans are flush with new faces. Thus, I visualize an exciting, wide open race two years from now.

Thanks for the encouragement. You know, I was thinking and noticing something along this line just the other day. The republican party has, for a long time, been represented by very old faces...but that's been changing. There is more diversity and more youth. I think this occurred when I saw Cantor taking Obama to task. Now I'm not an ageist...I don't think older people can't contribute or have nothing to contribute...quite the opposite.

But I've noticed that it's the democrat party who is starting to look like very old hippies...scary. Look at Reid, Pelosi, Boxer and Kennedy when he was alive. For the most part the leadership of the democrat party has grown old, bitter and hateful. The republican party needs, and I content is getting, fresh faces with some younger energy. This can't but help on a number of levels.