The party that was once the champion of small government, low spending and personal responsibility has left us with this legacy:
- Largest unemployment lines in over 15 years;
- Largest number of people receiving unemployment benefits in 20 years;
- Largest and most expensive government in decades;
- Likely to be the weakest economy in over 80 years if predictions that our economic crisis is “just getting started” happen to be true and the seemingly run-a-muck Bailout continues veering off course…;
- Harshest repeal and tarnishing of Constitutional rights and Geneva Convention laws in 40 years.
- Most incompetent and favoritism-based appointments to positions of power resulting in the deaths of thousands of American citizens and military personnel;
- The largest number of firings, early departures and scandals surrounding political offices in my memory.
I’ve been trying to figure out how Republicans are going to get back to the platform of small government, family values, fiscal and personal responsibility, strong governmental ethics and reform and somehow push the ideas that “trickle down” or “top-down” tax cuts and policies work and are healthy for the economy. Are there any conservatives around that can help reconcile the post-Bush reality with the tenets of the Republican party?
Which of these things do you think can be recovered? Which of these things will no longer be part of the Republican political lineup. Or, how might they be transformed to better connect with the U.S. American people?
