This author should be running “Team Building” programs for the RNC.
I have NEVER thought this way. If my life sucks it is up to me to make it better. Govt is a necessary evil to do things I just can't do for myself, like form an Army to fight an invasion., etc.
Did Karl Rove write this screed?
The GOPe attacked Gov. Palin under the command of
Mr. Willard RomneyCARE (RAT).
The RAT then did nothing as America as been assaulted
over and over.
The GOP is the party of the RAT and ObamaCARE/RomneyCARE.
NO MORE GOP. EVER.
And that, kids, is why I get my fast food from Burger King.
I’ve certainly eaten enough RINO burgers for one lifetime.
That was true once, but is no longer.
I don't trust pub-e's any more than I trust demorats.
The entire premise of this essay is false:
McDonalds product, no matter how they spin it, is rubbish.
Lowry accuses the GOP of being inconsistent, lacking core principles, and unable to communicate to all audiences. I find his column does not help me understand how both Olympia Snowe and Ted Cruz both fly the GOP banner yet probably could not find enough common ground for them to join in making a core principles stand for America on many issues. In truth, there are not many GOP members of that could sign Lowry’s manifesto without wanting some kind of codicil to give the member some wiggle room at election time.
The GOP is beyond being able to learn anything.
Bottom line, this kid is a "open Tent" RINO
Mostly very good. The republican party needs to stand for something and be much much better at marketing. My only argument is in #3. His arguement about speaking inclusively is fine. We do need to to bring people in, but his comment about being bombastic and speaking like a talk show host is wrong. The problem is being to morally mouthed and consultant driven in order not to offend that is the problem. It is uninspiring. The vast majority of 2010 candidates sounded more like a talk show host than politician. They took bold stands, contrasted with Obama and pelosi, and inspired the voters. McCain and Romney tiptoed around speaking boldly and got crushed. Cruz was about the only one that ran in 2012 that sounded like our candidates in 2010. Reagan was extremely bold and ideological. Noisy listen to his speeches. Does anyone claim that Obama is always inclusive and does not incite. He calls out enemies, and goes way beyond anything I have ever heard from a nominee or sitting president.
We need bold candidates that challenge status who thinking. Sounding like a talk show host pulls people in. That’s why they build large audiences and regularly convert democrats to their thinking.
I’d say the pubbies have learned the McD lessons quite well.
They’ve been advertising juicy fare forever and delivering garbage with mechanical efficiency. The products they deliver will prove fatal in the end and are little different from the competitors other than product name. Advertising seems to be their best product and their franchises are packed all across the nation filled with people hungry for good fare but duped by ease and hype. In the end, the consumer gets nothing of substance other than substandard swill concocted with ‘secret’ ingredients to make addicts and, thus, a stable full of complacent feeder pigs of their consumers. In short, their product is a lie; the pleasure is chemical and ephemeral; and the continual consumption of their fare is amortal danger to its willing customers.
Of course, I’m talking about Republican politics here . . .
Wouldn’t Ruth’s Chris be a better goal?
What a freaking idiot, McDonalds goal is to make a profit.
The author of the article doesn't know or realize government's only possible function of benefit is the protection or preserveration of individual life and property. Everything else is up to us as individuals. Every time someone envisions using government as a tool for use in implementing anything, the thing government is chosen to assist is destroyed and often with collateral damage.
Start with the post office.
Fifty years ago, the US had an incredible health care system, the envy of the world. No one was denied needed care whether they could pay for it or not. Claims to the contrary are wrong in spite of isolated rare exceptions. Political leaders and Congress saw a good thing and wanted more of it at lower price. And if someone could not afford to pay, no problem. We would all pay to eliminate the risk that the exceptions might increase in number.
Pick any topic; there is nothing that government cannot make worse. Conversely, what has government improved?
Education?
Science? We have a President who thinks he can change the the world's climate. The delusions of grandeur of government and its proponents know no limits in spite of a record of near perfect failures and virtually no successes apart from the illusions of isolated examples of a complex nature where it can be argued that goverment did something beneficial because the benefit is obvious but the problems are not so obvious. The interstate highway system being the first, and the space program possibly the second.
The twentieth century is the perfect example of government benefits. The greatest threat to human beings of any country proved to come from their own governments where governments around the world killed more of their own citizens than any foreign powers. If you think the US is an exception, maybe you should reconsider and examine all of the facts. Start by asking the Branch Davidians in Waco. Oh, that's right. You can't; they don't exist anymore.
Washington's Farewell address admonished against foreign entanglements especially with England and Europe. Have you ever really thought about why the United States got involved in WWI? Have you ever considered that Wilson bungled the peace treaty that ended WWI or that the treaty that ended WWI was the proximate cause of WWII. How many Americans died in WWI and WWII? A compelling case is easily built that our government's policies are responsible for almost all the American deaths of WWI and WWII.
No doubt many will argue that we fought those wars to protect our own freedom by expanding the opportunities for freedom for others in their own countries. Look around. How's that working out for us or for the other people?
Commerce, industry and trade are the essential ingredients that make it possible for us all to thrive and increase our wealth. Money is the single most important tool necessary to those efforts. The history of our money can be summarized in three quotes:
Not worth a continental!
Sound as a dollar.
It's our money, but it's your problem.
Before 1912, the United States was the envy and role model of the world. Woodrow Wilson and both major political parties amended and subverted the Constitution in direct opposition to the warnings from Thomas Jefferson, “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.” In one century, the US government stole more than 95% of the purchasing power of its citizens’ money.
The proponents for government attest to the God-like magical powers of a benevolent government. The success America has enjoyed is in spite of a government that was shackled by a prudent group of men who recognized who actually paves the road of good intentions. In 1830, Alex de Tocqueville wrote, “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money. A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.” When a leading institution's first thought about the responsibilities of government or the political parties that seek to compose it are “...focused on doing things for its customers” surely Jefferson's and de Tocqueville’s admonitions are about to become reality.
“Ultimately, people vote for politicians because they want to MAKE THEIR LIFE BETTER. Sure, voters may also care about the Constitution....”
WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP. That’s why America is circling the toilet right now.
People see Government as something that DOES things for you, instead of getting out of the way so we can be free. That is precisely why the nation is dying. Democrats have mastered this ruse, and now idiot Republicans want to follow suit.
I think Karl Rove DID write this garbage.
McDonald’s has been selling hamburgers since 1955 and recently sold it’s 300 billionth burger. Washington racked up $300 billion in more debt in less than four months.
Rush was right. You cannot defeat Santa Clause. No where in the Constitution does it give the right of the people to vote themselves money from the treasury, yet, welfare and other programs do just that. So, polidiots find ways to promise money from the treasury and people vote for them. You cannot offer logic when the other guy is offering thousands of dollars of cold hard cash.
We have taxation without representation. I get taxed so the polidiot can represent someone else with my money.
The GOP is fully aware of these steps. They just do not want to undertakes them because it creates a risk of loss of control of the party and that will never be allowed to happen - no matter what happens to the nation at large.
The article makes some good points, but the author must be manic depressive. He writes several paragraphs laying out his case, and then reverses his entire point in the last couple of sentences. Strange.