The GOP needs to support candidates that stick to its core domestic issues–less spending, lowered taxes, and less government interference in people’s lives. Those are good positions even if reporters at the AP and NEwsweek can’t understand them.
It cannot be for “less” government interference while simultaneously favoring the pet projects of its clerical wing.
It cannot be for honesty while supporting Denny Hasterts and Duke Cinninghams. It has to expel those people before the feds find them.
People with some imagination who are “FOR” something (and there is plenty to be for) can succeed in restoring the GOP: there are people in prisons for one drug offense that occurred more than 10 years ago: they ought to all be evaluated and the non-violent ones cut loose with a promise of an expungement of their record if they behave.
Colleges costs that have skyrocketed past the rate of inflation by a factor of three ened to be pruned back by new Regents and oversight committees that cut silly courses and psuedo “departments” of various “studies.”
Public pensions need to be pruned back and fast and the retirement age of 55 brought up to 65 except for cops that actually took a bullet or somehting comparable.
And for the Palin supporters ehre, lets get serious: nice, pleasant, probably honest, yes all of those. But experienced? Savvy? tempered by experience? Oh come one.
Sarah Palin neither was nor is a serious “A” level player in national politics. She may reinvent herself, but the GOP has yet to find candidates that reflect its implied promise: experience, judgment, integrity.
It needs to get busy and find such people.
