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This is as true today as it was thirty years ago.
Would that the next giant leader of conservatism on the level of a Reagan rise?
That's what we need more then anything.
We must be damn sure that the next republican prez canidate be cut of the same cloth as Reagan.
In another recent survey, of 35,000 college and university students polled, three-fourths blame American business and industry for all of our economic and social ills. The same three-fourths think the answer is more (and virtually complete) regimentation and government control of all phases of business—including the imposition of wage and price controls. Yet, 80 percent in the same poll want less government interference in their own lives!
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You bet it is. Thanks for posting it.
A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.
I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.
Awesome words!
Amazingly so.
He even asks the same question:
"Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?"
I think we need a second party. Whether or not its name is "Republican" is another question.