If Reagan Tolerated GOP Moderates, Why Can’t Today’s Conservatives?
Pelto at 249
The GOP stands for principles–in addition to allowing consenting corporations to do merge while insisting that people cannot. It needs to return to them to win votes and govern fairly, and that is not acomplished by acting as badly as the other side. Ask Caeser, Sulla, Marias or Pompey.
There is no inconsistency in demanding that the GOP act like adults even if one party trends to voter fraud, deficit spending and waste.
And recognizing this is not softheaded: the GOP lost precisely because it started acting like democrats had acted. After being voted into the white house for most of 40 years, and congress for a mere 12, the GOP began to treat voters as the stupid people they tell us the democrats think they are.
The GOP loss in 2006 and 2008 had nothing to do with bad behavior by the democratic party.
