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Commentary: GOP Should Ask Why U.S. is on the Wrong Track
CNN ^ | 11/12/08 | Ron Paul

Posted on 11/12/2008 7:27:24 AM PST by marshmallow

(CNN) -- The questions now being asked are: Where to go from here and who's to blame for the downfall of the Republican Party?

Too bad the concern for the future of the Republican Party had not been seriously addressed in the year 2000 when the Republicans gained control of the House, Senate, and the Presidency.

Now, in light of the election, many are asking: What is the future of the Republican Party?

But that is the wrong question. The proper question should be: Where is our country heading? There's no doubt that a large majority of Americans believe we're on the wrong track. That's why the candidate demanding "change" won the election. It mattered not that the change offered was no change at all, only a change in the engineer of a runaway train.

Once it's figured out what is fundamentally wrong with our political and economic system, solutions can be offered. If the Republican Party can grasp hold of the policy changes needed, then the party can be rebuilt.

In the rise and fall of the recent Republican reign of power these past decades, the goal of the party had grown to be only that of gaining and maintaining power -- with total sacrifice of the original Republican belief in shrinking the size of government.

Most Republicans endorsed this view in order to achieve victories at the polls. Limiting government power and size with less spending and a balanced budget as the goal used to be a "traditional" Republican value. This is what Goldwater and Reagan talked about. That is what the Contract with America stood for.

The opportunity finally came in 2000 to do something about the cancerous growth of government.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2008; bushfailure; conservatism; goldwater; lp; mccainsfailure; reagan; rinofailure; rinopurge; ronpaul
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Welcome to "Bailout Nation". We're about as far from limited government as this country has ever been.
1 posted on 11/12/2008 7:27:24 AM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

“...attacks on civil liberties here at home, and an economic policy based on more spending, more debt, and more inflation “

Mr. Paul, you ain’t seen nothing yet...


2 posted on 11/12/2008 7:34:28 AM PST by Outlaw Woman (Those with the most to Lose, did the least to prevent it's happening. Ronald Reagan 10/27/64)
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To: Outlaw Woman

How about CNN asking why media is on the wrong track being so partisan pimping a Marxist day and night for 2 years.


3 posted on 11/12/2008 7:37:13 AM PST by JaneNC (I)
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To: bamahead; traviskicks

Ron Paul ping!


4 posted on 11/12/2008 7:37:19 AM PST by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" --Patrick Henry)
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To: Outlaw Woman

Someone really really needs to explain to me this “loss of civil liberties” we’re experiencing. I must have missed all those stories of law-abiding Americans being dragged away to jail. I assume they’re referring to the Patriot Act and the eavesdropping (not wiretapping, you lib fools) on cell calls to/from suspected terrorists outside the U.S.

Well, don’t worry, Libs - the Great Obigula will rescind those laws. However, I wouldn’t cross any major bridges or eat in an outdoor restaurant after he does, if I were you.


5 posted on 11/12/2008 7:38:59 AM PST by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: marshmallow
What is the future of the Republican Party?

For Ron Paul, a government of the people, by the people, for the wild shrimp.

6 posted on 11/12/2008 7:39:43 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: marshmallow

When GWB won we all thought having three branches of R government would complete the republican revolution of 1994-95. Instead it destroyed it. WJC was way more successful then GWB because he lost his liberal corrupt congress in two years and had a republican congress to fix everything,provide him cover, and to blame. By the time GWB lost congress, 2007, it was too late to recover, GWB was too damaged, Pelosi was a master of self control and cynical got-ya politics. Very painful years,

Lets hope the other side is as careless as our party has been, no lets pray.


7 posted on 11/12/2008 7:40:10 AM PST by sickoflibs ( Those who don't learn from (real big) mistakes are losers forever)
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To: marshmallow
In the months leading up to the election, I saw a number of surveys indicating that X% of voters thought the Republican party was heading the wrong way.

I'm convinced that many Americans think the Republicans certainly aren't Conservative enough.
And I'm convinced that many Conservatives stayed home because John McCain was too Liberal.
And I'm convinced that the media doesn't want people to know these things.

8 posted on 11/12/2008 7:40:38 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: marshmallow

CNN ... posting opinions from “conservatives” only when it suits their goal of making the Democratic party look good.

The media wants to force its assumption that Republicans caused the financial crisis when most of the blame goes to democrats.

*sigh*


10 posted on 11/12/2008 7:41:52 AM PST by DiogenesLaertius
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To: Outlaw Woman
Do not mistake rises in the price of oil as having anything to do with inflation.

The big problem is DEFLATION.

11 posted on 11/12/2008 7:42:20 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: dirtboy
"For Ron Paul, a government of the people, by the people, for the wild shrimp."

Oh yeah, a government led by a border line retard is just what we need now.

12 posted on 11/12/2008 7:43:41 AM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: marshmallow

We barely won 2000, 2002, 2004 if you look at the margins then we became big government, deficits, bubble economy, corruption, war mismanagement. We deserve to have lost. Obama campaigned like a suburban moderate Republican but will find hard to govern as such given his rabid left wing base of support who will demand payback. Hopefully that conflict will give us the opportunity to find a voice, leaders who will be able to design policies based on conservative principle that will right what is wrong in US. Generalities about freedom, low taxes and personal responsibility are not going to cut it if we cannot come up with thorough, sensible policies that will yield results and improvement. There is a perception that Republicans want just radical free market anything goes existence that is just not working for a hell of a lot of people


13 posted on 11/12/2008 7:48:27 AM PST by RedLatino
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To: sickoflibs
"When GWB won we all thought having three branches of R government would complete the republican revolution of 1994-95. Instead it destroyed it. "

Hence, we can NOT trust Republicans to promote and protect Conservatism in America.

14 posted on 11/12/2008 7:48:38 AM PST by gitmogrunt (The stupidity of the American Sheeple never ceases to amaze me.)
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To: dirtboy

One could make the argument to Rep. Paul that the U.S. is on the wrong track because of the shrimp industry.


15 posted on 11/12/2008 7:50:32 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: marshmallow
It's just a matter of who can come out with the biggest bailout package. Republicans pandering to Wall Street and the banks just gave the green light to the Rats to come up with an even bigger one.

It's way too soon for GOP navel gazing, or speculation on 2012 candidates, etc. We need to let the stupid people who naively let Hope and Change be their comfort find out what a fraud Zero is. They won't be able to figure that out for at least six months, probably a year. We shouldn't have too much trouble drawing up "Contract with America Part Two" by then.

16 posted on 11/12/2008 7:52:36 AM PST by hunter112 (Obamunism will fizzle, fo' shizzle.)
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To: Nathan Zachary
Oh yeah, a government led by a border line retard is just what we need now.

Exactly how many people think of Bush.

17 posted on 11/12/2008 7:54:37 AM PST by marshmallow
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To: gitmogrunt
Hence, we can NOT trust Republicans to promote and protect Conservatism in America.

You broke the code--congratulations.

We need our own political party, a prosperity party, which will communicate and promote conservative values to a new generation of Americans--principles we know that work, otherwise America is done.

The GOP is incapable of doing this, because the RINO DNA cannot be overcome. The infection is complete in the GOP.

They bear the responsibility for allowing a Marxist of unknown origin to be the next inhabit the White House,and all of the damage to America that he will inflict.

Start fresh, start new, with a fresh political brand, and disassociate from the GOP.

The GOP is stuck on stupid, And you can't fix stupid.

18 posted on 11/12/2008 7:54:48 AM PST by exit82 (It's all Obama's fault. And Biden is still a moron. They are both above their paygrade.)
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To: Right Cal Gal

“Someone really really needs to explain to me this “loss of civil liberties” we’re experiencing”

You are absolutely right. There’s been NO LOSS (if I’m interpreting your writing correctly). I got into a ‘heated’ (understatement) debate with the manager of my office regarding the civil liberties BS. He’s pretty far left and was screaming at me about how civil liberties under Bush have been attacked and on and on and on. It was bad enough that it destroyed our friendship....Can’t get over the twisted logic/reasoning of these people. It has to be a ‘supernatural phenomenom’ .......


19 posted on 11/12/2008 7:56:02 AM PST by Outlaw Woman (Those with the most to Lose, did the least to prevent it's happening. Ronald Reagan 10/27/64)
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To: muawiyah

if volcker or rubin are in charge, we could see serious deflation like in the early 80’s. however it would be followed by serious inflation instead of the steady growth of the rest of the 80’s


20 posted on 11/12/2008 7:56:59 AM PST by ari-freedom (So this is how Liberty dies... with thunderous applause)
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