Whither the GOP?
OK, it’s by now an established fact that Obama and his disciples have the same, if not greater, propensity for shooting themselves in the foot as W’s administration and the previous GOP Congress. (Broken promises, Fudged transparency, Debt problems, Orwellian actions)
The question is this: can / will the GOP seize upon this strategic over-stretch by the Democrats?
The GOP is -21 seats in the House, -12 in the Senate. The Dems have shown a remarkable ability to alienate moderates / independents, based on recent polling (Rasmussen, NY Post, Donklephant, Scared Monkeys). It’s not impossible that the GOP could stage a complete and total comeback in DC. It’s a big task, but it IS doable. (Listen up… I’m a pessimist by nature, and this ray o’ sunshine is all natural.)
What’s needed to pull off this coup? Individual liberty.
The GOP needs to re-prioritize it’s platform to fully and forcefully incorporate individual liberty as the basis for everything.
You’re asking ‘Huh? Don’t they do that already?’ The answer is a resounding NO. From the war on drugs to gay marriage to sodomy laws, the GOP is sadly anti-liberty, in ways that are sadly inconsequential to the nation. We’re going to lay out several plank positions that we think will help the GOP stage a takeover of the Congress. The theme that will drive these positions is: does this enhance individual liberties relative to the government?
It goes without saying that the GOP should be decidedly pro-2nd amendment. It will likely surprise some that we hold that the GOP must become ‘libertarian’; the war on drugs, a consistent failure, must stop. Regulation and taxation will succeed where the SWAT team fails. The GOP must abandon anything similar to poking around in peoples’ bedrooms. Opposition to gay marriage must be replaced with a position that the state has no business in marriage.
Speaking of business, ‘oversight’ will strangle businesses, as will the taxation required to fund this bailout. Businesses must be free to succeed and fail, yes fail. It is painful to endure failure, but the bailouts have set us up for bankruptcy.
There’s more to this ‘makeover’ idea, and we will elaborate on it later on. We don’t pretend to be the original thinkers for this, but we do contribute our voices to what we feel is a growing movement to steer the GOP back into the pro-liberty and pro-freedom camp, and thence back into pre-eminence.
Don’t tread on us.