Posted on 10/26/2013 5:51:14 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper
I AM a genetic Republican. Five generations of Tafts have served our nation as unwaveringly stalwart Republicans, from Alphonso Taft, who served as attorney general in the late 19th century, through William Howard Taft, who not only was the only person to be both president of the United States and chief justice of the United States but also served as the chief civil administrator of the Philippines and secretary of war, to my cousin, Robert Taft, a two-term governor of Ohio.
As I write, a photograph of my grandfather, Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, looks across at me from the wall of my office. He led the Republican Party in the United States Senate in the 1940s and early 1950s, ran for the Republican nomination for president three times and was known as “Mr. Republican.” If he were alive today, I can assure you he wouldn’t even recognize the modern Republican Party, which has repeatedly brought the United States of America to the edge of a fiscal cliff — seemingly with every intention of pushing us off the edge.
Throughout my family’s more than 170-year legacy of public service, Republicans have represented the voice of fiscal conservatism. Republicans have been the adults in the room. Yet somehow the current generation of party activists has managed to do what no previous Republicans have been able to do — position the Democratic Party as the agents of fiscal responsibility.
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All this ink spilled and it is hard to see what alternative Taft is proposing beyond rolling over in unconditional surrender . . .
Anybody in this guy’s ancestry ever had a real job? One that contributed to the tax base instead of taking from it? One that actually employed people?
Just another stupid RINO.
Ho Hum. Another hit piece on one of the very few voices of reason left in his party. make that the very very few.
If it weren’t for weak-kneed, reach-across-the-aisle RINOS, there would never have been a need for the TEA Party. “Taxed Enough Already” is a direct outgrowth of limp-wristed, pastel-colored so-called Republicans that went along with big government, big tax Democrats. I would hate to see the Republican Party accommodate a large area of the tent for RINOs, and have no room for TEA Party concepts. The GOP-e has already banned the Reagan Republicans. There should be a place at the table for Cruz, lee, Rubio, Palin branch to offset the McCain, Boehner, McConnell, Graham branch. It is the only way to return to what I thing Taft meant by “fiscal conservatism”.
Pigs don’t know pigs stink. And apparently neither do ruling class elitists.
What is this bonehead nattering on about?
Senator Robert A. Taft showed how a conservative leader could succeed by, in the words of Ronald Reagan, raising “a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people.”
If that is “true Republicanism”, then we need to go. He just made the case for a third party.
A New York Times Republican is not a conservative. By the way, John, how many victories did your grand dad deliver for the nation??
Howard Taft, another of your ancestors, had such a horrible tenure as President, that a DIVIDED Republican party put the extremist progressive Woodrow Wilson in office... That was the result of YOUR FAMILY'S PHILOSOPHY OF GOVERNANCE.
That is a cheap shot, with ethnically demeaning sub-tones (heavy-lidded eyes), one that is self-serving as well. And, to equate Ted Cruz with McCarthy is beyond the pale. One is an erudite exemplar of leadership in public service, the other was a not, yet he was willing to expose private school communists when no one else would because of the good old boy network. You can’t ride on the coattails of memory Mr. Taft.
“Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, looks across at me from the wall of my office. He led the Republican Party in the United States Senate in the 1940s and early 1950s, ran for the Republican nomination for president three times and was known as “Mr. Republican.”
“A ship does not sail with yesterday’s wind.” (L. L’Amour, The Walking Drum)
MEMO to NYTimes:
We don’t care a wit about a “true Republican.” Republicans are only useful when the stand up and fight tooth and nail against the socialist hoards.....ie...the “true conservatives.” Everyone else is the enemy, or in the very least, irrelevant.
I never read past the part that says “New York Times”.
“position the Democratic Party as the agents of fiscal responsibility.”
Does Taft think perpetuation of an enormous, unworkable, job-killing new entitlement program, when we are running $1.5 trillion deficits, is fiscally responsible? And stopping said program is NOT?
I’ll admit that the Republican leadership is incompetent, especially in getting out its message. Surprise! The Democrats control the “news” media, and use it as their own vehicle. Perhaps it is time for Republicans to absorb that reality and develop a game plan more effective than “deer in the headlights”.
"Finally Senator McCarthy was brought up short during the questioning of the United States Army’s chief counsel, Joseph N. Welch, who at one point demanded the senator’s attention, then said: “Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.” He later added: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”Ann Coulter has shown that Welch's outrage was bogus;
"Likewise with the face-value quote of Army Counsel Joseph Welch's lachrymose denunciation of McCarthy for allegedly having outed Welch assistant Frederick Fisher as a former member of the National Lawyers Guild, an officially cited Communist front. Omitted from this Welchian morality play...is that Fisher had already been outed to the press and public as a former member of the Guild—by none other than Joe Welch, six weeks before this set-to with McCarthy." (Stan Evans Responds to an Idiot--Ann Coulter, Mat 2, 2008)
Gadzooks, doesn't John G. Taft realize that even while he was a drunk, Joe McCarthy was right about the Communist influence taking hold in American Government. He was like Paul Revere crying, "The Redcoats are coming! The Redcoats are coming!"
Look at how a single complaint allows the doing away with traditions and morals handed down to us from hundred of years of our history. Look at the IRS deciding that Liberal Democrat political entities are acceptable and Conservative Tea Party ones are not. Look at the EPA issuing rules with the force of law that tell folks how to live and use their land all without any an direct involvement from Congress. Look at Obamacare being the law of the land via a re-write by Chief Justice Roberts and forcing people to buy something just 'because' they exist.
Ted Cruz is sober and like Paul Revere, except he is crying, "The Redcoats are here! The Redcoats are here!"
John G. Taft may proclaim "I AM a genetic Republican." Yet in truth, first and foremost, John G. Taft... 
AM a Liberal with a capital 'L' who marches with the Democrats rather that the Grand Old Party of his ancestors.
No, John G. Taft, you do not have a long way yet to go... 
you have already crossed the aisle to stand with your left wing brethren--
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