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How the GOP Can ‘Run Against the Center’

June 9, 2009 - 12:36 am - by Jennifer Rubin
SteveB/Colorado
2009-06-09 10:29:13

#5 Deguello: “the best response to the incipient Obamamista regime, is a militant, populist third party based on opposition to globalism, closed borders, localism…….” Just how do you propose to “close” the 3,000+ mile Canadian border? How will you police the ports and thousands of miles of coast lines? Sounds like what you’re proposing is an extremely expensive police state.

“smashing government schooling, reindustrialization, energy independence, isolationism……” If government education is done away with, then who educates the kids? Maybe share some details here. How do you propose to bring about energy independence? Our economy runs on oil. We consume a quarter of the world’s daily production while sitting on 3% of the world’s reserves of petroleum?

#7 angry white dude: “we have not had a conservative since Reagan and it shows.” Reagan was a conservative? I recall his campaign proposing to do away with the Department of Education? Didn’t happen. His budgets weren’t conservative either; he introduced the country to Republican style “borrow and spend liberalism.” Now, I liked a LOT about Reagan. But I wouldn’t call him exactly a conservative.

#12 Deguello: “Green energy is another libtard fantasy. We need to drill and go nuclear…..” Just where do you think we should drill?

How do you feel about the big energy companies hoarding leases? As of June, 2008, energy companies were sitting on over 67 million acres of undeveloped oil & gas leases on shore, mostly in the West, and off shore. And that was before the companies began to cap wells and idle rigs due to the recession. You can talk “drill, baby, drill” all you want. But if the companies aren’t drilling, what is your plan?