I love all these people who say that ol’ Arlen was a moderate and that the GOP is marginalizing it’s self. Notice that most of them are lberals.
Arlen Specter is a liberal. So was Lincloln Chaffee and James Jeffords. The GOP does not need these people under any circumstance. It is no longer about the last election people, it is about future elections. Sometime in the future(it might be several election cycles from now) our nations economy will have decended into a status that the majority of Americans will not abide. There will be high inflation and unemployment, and ascending interest rates. The weakened state of the economy will require turning away from a socialist approach. Our natinal security will have been compromied. These facts will have, overtime, become obvious to the majority of American voters despite the attempt by what is left of the MSM to transfer blame away from the liberals. Americans remember prosperity, and they will be attracted to an alternative political and economic approach.
A party with Arlen Specter in it can’t credibly offer that alternative. It won’t seem genuine and the NYT or, if that is gone, MSNBC will exploit the internal difference.
Liberals inevitably destroy free enterprise and the tax revenue it produces. If they undrstood Arthur Laffer they would embrace and promote private capital and finance their welfare state through permanent economic expansion and ever increasing tax revenue. Luckily, they just don’t have much of an understanding of practical supply side economic theory, for they could become a permanent majority.
Bob Michel, the old Illinois Republican house minority leader spent his whole political career appeasing Democrats. He was Arlen Specter. The media loved him for he perpetuated their sides rule. Don’t listen to those who say it is bad for the GOP to be conservative, they are misguided and don’t undrestand how political power changes hands in a republic. The GOP needs to follow Paul Ryan and Bob Jindal now. Their arguments for free enterprise and capitalism will become more and more appealing as America’s economy inevitably becomes less productive and competitive, and economic misery envelops the nation.
Let’s celebrate the fact that Benedict Arlen is now one of them. The Liberals are stuck with his decayed morals and empty economic ideas. Stay the course GOP and ignore the John McCains. Moderates and independents will be listening to our ideas soon enough.
