Today, Michael Steele was solid on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. He honestly outlined how their party got off track from their core Reagan era principles and what they would need to do to get their swagger back—which does not including becoming imitation Democrats at all.
The good news is he has a plan but the bad news is many member of his party are not having it. To them, conservative is not about being conservative in the role of government and spending. To many conservatives, the effort is to go back to the future and as the Feetwood Mac song said, “Yesterday is gone….Yesterday is gone.”
The last few months were rough on my personal friends who are Republicans because they realized that the inside the Beltway dealers in their party were at times more interested in hooking up corporate America than executing an agenda that best serves the average American.
As a moderate, I am somewhat uncomfortable with the billions, trillions and zillions being tossed around in D.C. to assist in the recovery. Reasonable Republicans can get behind Steele and use this concerns to pull the White House toward the center and make mid-term gains for their effort. But, waiting for the White House’s policies to fail just to make political gain would be irresponsible and un-American.
I am starting to hear that General David Petraeus might be the next GOP Eisenhower because the 2012 GOP bench looks thin. Interesting.
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Many Republicans are starting to come over to the Libertarian party, mostly because of the actions of those Republicans in power.
I have said for a while that the difference between the two parties is who they want the government to fund. With Democrats it’s the poor people of the US, and with the Republicans it’s the poor corporations of the US.
It’s a shame too, because once upon a time, the two parties provided what I felt was a nice counter to one another. Now, they’re just two sides of a debating society arguing about where all the spending should go.
In college, we thought the Democrats were for the workers (labor) and the Republicans were for the company owners and bankers.
But, we are in a period of transformation politically and I love options and alternatives. Things change over time and what we considered apples and oranges have become some hybrid fruit sold by the nursery in Ty Ty, Georgia.
For example, most of the African Americans around me when I was a kid functioned under the assumption that we as a race were for the most part pushing toward achievement and excellent but many of the fools I see in my community are more of a threat to peace than the Klan and the Taliban put together. We must reassess the reality of the situation.
Some Republicans woke up to realize that their party messed up some things and I appreciate their honesty. That’s why it is time for the Democrats to mess up for awhile. Kidding.