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[Man50D]

The contract with America was a farce. The only true contract with America was enacted in 1789 called the Constitution. The GOP's forgery only illustrates how far both parties have drifted from the Constitution for the sake of gaining power. The GOP was pandering to the masses as evident by their failure to stand by their own principles set forth in their own document.

Mentioning Conservatives and Republicans in the same breath is a contradiction given the GOP has incrementally moved farther to the socialist left to expand its voter base by appeasing socialists at the expense of conservatism. The end result is increasingly socialist candidates such as John McCain. The GOP needs to return to the principles set forth in the Constitution by our founding fathers instead of pandering to the very group of people who seek make the Constitution irrelevant by replacing our Democratic Republic with a strong centralized socialist government.

[OCC]

The Republicans gave up on term limits and a balanced budget amendment to easily. IMHO, these two things would help fix almost everything that is wrong with the US Government.

[narses]

Wjhat made the 1994 Revolution was the promise of LIMITS. LIMITS on taxes, LIMITS on government and term limits on legislators. The idealists kept their word. The cynical, opportunistic bastards stayed.

[NewJerseyJoe]

The glory that was Greece
The grandeur that was Rome

And the abandoned promise ... that was the Contract with America