Micheal J Totten:
The centrists decide the election, not the partisans.
What is a ‘centrist’? What is ‘the center’?
The battle is over where the ‘center’ is. If your ‘right’ boundary is George Bush (ballooning size and scope of federal government and spending) and Marx, where is the center going to be? If on the other hand , the spectrum ranges from Milton Friedman to Marx, the ‘center’ is going to be in a very different place.
Between populism and principle, it is principle that should be the foundation of a party’s platform. The Constitution and Founding Fathers should be far more central to the debate. It should not be a pandering contest to teacher’s union agendas, warming hysteria, or some other whipped-up special interest crisis du jour that probably will have completely faded away on its own in two years. It should be about true leadership – the likes of which we have not seen since Reagan.
We need a leader, not someone who plays to the media circus.
Reagan showed that leadership is good for the GOP, America, and the world.
Bush has shown that capitulation and compromise is well, less than great for the GOP, America, and the world.
Let the fight continue.
