Yes, this is a HUGE generalization, but for the most part it's true. Still waiting for a real conservative party to emerge to the right of the GOP, as the Dems grow ever more irrelevant...
Having said that, there's infinitely more hope for the GOP than the Dems, (they aren't even a serious choice for thinking individuals), and certainly we've seen signs of hope here and there.
The route to principled government is found in selflessness.
Anyone saying or believing this is a lefty. You need principled PEOPLE to build a principled government, not a bunch of "selfless" wimps who care so much about us that they're trying to control everything cradle to grave.
Pols need to reminded and sadly often who they serve, the people who elected them. Those that do not take that to heart need to be replaced forthwith.
My problem with the GOP is quite simple - they've gotten addicted to spending and debt. They quite literally treat money like it falls out of the sky. In due time, when these debts come due, all other politics will become a sideshow. And I sincerely doubt they have a solution for the problems that will cause.
You do realize that the author of this article is a child, right? Kyle is not even the age of majority... yet. Yeah, follow the child's wisdom in world/national politiical view, no altitude corrections neccessary.
At a young age, Kyle recognizes the serious threat political parties present to a civil society. Individual liberty and the right of individuals to own the fruits of their hard work, good decisions, and responsible acts have never, and will never, co-exist with powerful political parties.
Both parties depend on large amounts of debt imposed on youngsters like Kyle to stay in business. Combine both parties support for imposing debt on Americans who can't vote and both parties support for unconstitutional fiat currency, it's easy to see why younsters like Kyle don't have much good to say about either party.
I don't think you can have a democracy without non-partisan elections at all levels of government. The rights of individual citizens simply cannot be protected by politicians representing political parties instead of individual citizens. In a democracy, political parties should be lobbyists and nothing more.
The process in the long run has been better exploited by the Republicans than Democrats but that may not be because Republicans are inherently smarter. The good old boys of the Republican Party have come from farther outside beltway and therefore more in touch with the people.
The Democrats repeated in 2004 the mistake that the Republicans made in 1996. They nominated a candidate just because he had been knocking around the Senate for a long time, not because he could connect with the people on the campaign trail. A kind of reward if you will for hanging around Washington holding office and not really making any enemies inside the Washington political elite.
The irony is that Howard Dean would have made a better candidate than Kerry. That does not mean that he could have beat Bush. He would have ran a better campaign. He would have at least had an issue. He had an articulable position on the war, he was against it in every way, shape and form. Anyone going to the polls to vote would have known the differences between the two candidates. As it turned out many voters may have seen the choice between a man wearing a cowboy hat and a man wearing a spandex wind surfing suit, a man with an intelligent wife with traditional values, and man whose wife was a cash cow and whose mouth was not connected to a thinking organ.
But the Democrats are a humanistic and pseudo caring party, and in their own way they felt sorry for the way the Teddy Kennedy and his boy Shrum, along with little Tommy Harkin had put the bum's rush on Dean to hand the spandex boy the nomination. So they thought they would feel better if they threw some crumbs Howie's way.
By doing so the Republicans get another huge gift, deserved or not.
Being qualified means a lot to the Republican Party where as the DNC considers quantity over qualified.
Liberals, to see what we hear when Dean speaks, subsitute the word "Jew" for the term "white Christian"
exactly! if the situation was reversed, the left would hear it this way: (Freeper Frame)
"democrats are pretty much a Jewish party."
"i hate democrat-Jews and everything they stand for."
"democrat-Jews have never made an honest living in their lives."
"democrat-Jews are brain dead."
"democrat-Jews are evil."
Wow, when you think of it that way, Howard Dean seems like a modern day Nazi. the only difference is the particular group being targeted.
Well .. just take a look at the Clinton cabinet (especially the high profile positions) and measure it against the Bush cabinet (high profile positions).
The Republicans were made up of a much more DIVERSE group of people than the ALL WHITE MEN group in Clinton's camp. While Clinton had 2 women (AG and SS_ - THEY WERE BOTH WHITE.
This is why Dean's statement is just divisive and wrong.
Our job is to reshape the GOP from within, rather than wishing that a more conservative party, to the right of the Republican party will magically arise.
The Gop foundation is pretty sound and the soil beneath the foundation is generally stable and the structure itself has more sound timbers than those weakened by termites and rot. This old house is restorable and remodelable, and the mortage is nearly paid off-we damn near own it, free and clear of debt.
Why should we start all over from scratch, someplace else and allow the crack pots of the left and the half cracked RINOS of the right,to turn our old residense into a crack house?????
Whoever wrote this (and I seriously doubt that it was really a 15-yr old) is merely mounting a weak defense of dean by criticizing Republicans using the same untruths the RATS always use, they're Christian extremists, they're only for the rich, etc. Naturally, anybody who bashes politicians in general will get lots of agreement. Who doesn't think pols are self-absorbed hacks who don't care about the taxpayers who elected them? Simplistic is right.
"While this is a bit simplistic ..." And how old is Kyle? Simplistic is an understatement.