When I was younger, and Ronald Reagan was President, through the 1994 Contract with America - Republicans stood for something. You could argue for or against, but not that they stood for nothing.
Everything they told us important they have subsequently crapped on.
Eliminate the Deficit
- hard de har har. Never had a bigger deficit ever. EVER. Took a surplus from a Democrat President (and a dead-locked Congress) and pissed it the hell away.
Protect Individual Rights
- how's that phone call going? The good news is that if you forgot who you called, the National Security Administration can tell you. If it was out of the country, they can play a recording for you.
Clean Government (well, post-Nixon)
- Randy "Duke" Cunningham. War Hero, Republican Congressman, Defense Oversight Committee, 12 years in Prison.
- Jack Abramov, Bob Nye, the list that keeps on giving
Smaller Government
- at one time they wanted to shutter the Department of Education and Depart of Health and Welfare. Now, Medicare Drug Coverage and the most intrusive Education Bill ever.
What is Karl Rove's plan to get Republicans elected in 2006. Back to basic Republican Ideals? Har de har har (From MSNBC Story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12703794/)
Headline: Rove Revamps the Republican Strategy--
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That was before the GOP situation got so desperate. The way I read the recent moves of Karl Rove & Co., they are preparing to wage war the only way open to them: not by touting George Bush, Lord knows, but by waging a national campaign to paint a nightmarish picture of what a Democratic Congress would look like, and to portray that possibility, in turn, as prelude to the even more nightmarish scenario: the return of a Democrat (Hillary) to the White House
Rather than defend Bush, Rove will seek to rally the Republicans' conservative grassroots by painting Democrats as the party of tax increases, gay marriage, secularism and military weakness. That's where the national message money is going to be spent.