I did read it, and I don’t agree.
The GOP needs a DNR order. I don’t recognize my, or my family’s values in the party. It’s just a “little better on the economy” Democrat party.
I changed my party affiliation from Republican to Unaffiliated just this morning coincidentally.
Great job there Karl and crew, great job! /s
That is so true. And that is why wholesale philosophical approaches and must be instituted after much soul-searching. They should earn or draw our allegiance, and they certainly aren't entitled to it by default. But the GOP must also appeal to a new, wider base or they will continue losing to the Democrat Socialist party until--all hyperbole aside-- they really do go the way of the Whigs. Bring on a new party, you might say? Well, that would take many elections to bring political clout to bear. We wouldn't see any fruits of it for generations and you might as well surrender your fate to the State right now.
I think you nailed it. I no longer recognize my values in the Republican Party either. I gravitated to the GOP during the Reagan years, when both fiscal and social issues got sturdy weight. Balance Budget Ammendments. Family values. The whole works. The Party stood for things. Heck if I know what they stand for now, other than slightly lower taxes than the crazed Dems, and actual antagonism towards its conservative base.
Even today we’re served up this headline: Gay-Marriage Lobbyist in Ohio is appointed head of Party. What in blazes??? And the leadership is fine with it. All while the Tea Party and folks like Sarah Palin get treated like trash. Still gets me how the very words “tea party” were outlawed at the GOP convention. But a gay-marriage lobbyist running the state party is a-ok? Trash the tea-party, but cozy up to deviancy? May they burn in hell!
Each day a new story like this. I’m developing an intense hatred for the GOP... the only Party I’ve ever voted for in my life. The way things are going, they truly may never see another vote from me again.