Posted on 04/14/2010 8:45:22 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
I am more of a baseball fan than a football fan, and I think it is because baseball is more like real life. Baseball players must play both offense and defense, unlike football, where there are two separate teams for offense and defense. Unfortunately, politics is more like football, which leads me to wonder why Republicans play only defense and never play offense.
Republicans are against "big government," but have no plan for getting to "small government." Maybe political parties should give up their old-fashioned baseball way of life and adopt rules and strategies more akin to football.
Under new football rules, a political party would field two teams, one team to fight and win elections, and then another to actually run the government. Under the existing baseball rules, Republicans can win elections but not govern. That is because they are good only at defense – stopping bad things from happening, but have no game plan or playbook for scoring touchdowns. Republicans never move the football into enemy territory, never get to the "red zone."
Alas, Republicans labor under the illusion that politics is about winning elections. When they win an election, they celebrate, and then they go home. But Democrats understand that winning elections is but a means to an end – exercising power and governing the country. The Democratic Party is the party of government, whereas the Republican Party is the party of opposition to government. So, when Republicans do win an election, they are ill prepared to use their powers to make government smaller.
Republicans often lose even when they win, because they have no plan for actually governing in a manner consistent with their platform and principles, which is to say, a plan for restoring constitutional government.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
“I could have done with a few less sports metaphors ....”
That’s for your article when you write one. When Tom writes an article, he gets to use any metaphors he wants to use, just like anybody else.
Arbusto Jorge Jr.
LOL!!
Thanks for the ping. That was well thought out. You don’t hear that addressed much, but I like the way he did it, and it is critical to us getting our nation back on the right track.
It is true, we never repeal liberal instituted programs. It’s time to take out the meat cleaver and go to work.
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