Bad things happen in the center...
Posted on 05/22/2009 12:06:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In his CNN.com column last week, Ed Rollins said of the Republican Party, "We may be down for awhile, but what we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite'! We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business."
I used to work for Ed Rollins. He probably doesn't remember me; it was the election cycle of 1990, and I was one of his many employees at the National Republican Congressional Committee.
My formal title was Deputy Director of Strategy and Research. But the actual thrust of my job was doing opposition research for GOP campaigns across the country. In other words, I dug up dirt on Democrats.
One of my most vivid memories of Rollins during that time was of his bucking the White House in the summer of that year. It was just after the budget summit that the Democratic congressional leadership held at Andrews Air Force Base with the Bush administration.
Then-OMB Director Richard Darman cut a deal with Rep. Dan Rostenkowski to raise taxes, and President George H. W. Bush, who had pledged not to raise taxes ("Read my lips..."), agreed to it. Then all hell broke loose. Conservative Republicans on the Hill led by Newt Gingrich staged a revolt against the plan, while at the NRCC, Rollins wrote a memo advising all Republican candidates for the House to oppose it.
White House Chief of Staff John Sununu hit the roof, and Rollins became persona non grata at the White House. The budget plan passed anyway, and taxes were raised. Within two years, however, the Republican base deserted the president and Bush was voted out of office. Still, the stage had been set.
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The Democrats won the White House last year due to the Bush administration's unwillingness to fight back against the media. If I'd been the Dem nominee, I'd be president right now. I realize that Mr. Obama thinks it's his charm, eloquence, charisma and ideas that got him where he is today, but it's despite all those supposed features that he was elected, not because of.
If voters see two liberal parties running, they're going to vote for the name brand vs. the generic every time.
uh lemme think about that.......
how about no
Good analogy.
They would be moving towards the Conservative right if they moved towards the center.
Leftwing moonbats always wish that. Nothing new there.
Helpful advise from everyone. I guess they figure Republican caved on economic issues and Obama caved on national security so they just need us to change 1) abortion, 2) guns, 3) hate crimes
CONSERVATIVES RULE!!! CONSERVATIVES RULE!!! CONSERVATIVES RULE!!! CONSERVATIVES RULE!!! CONSERVATIVES RULE!!! CONSERVATIVES RULE!!! CONSERVATIVES RULE!!! CONSERVATIVES RULE!!! CONSERVATIVES RULE!!! CONSERVATIVES RULE!!! CONSERVATIVES RULE!!! CONSERVATIVES RULE!!! CONSERVATIVES RULE!!! CONSERVATIVES RULE!!! CONSERVATIVES RULE!!! CONSERVATIVES RULE!!!
Obama chose the center of liberalism: midway between national socialism and soviet socialism. The GOP should move to the center of conservatism: midway between strict constructionism and libertarianism. If we stand for freedom and openly sell our viewpoint, our leaders can actually lead. The remarkable thing is that given a choice between a leader and a teleprompter, most voters will take the leader.
Screw you Rollins. After what you did to Bill Simon in California just stay in your cesspool.
AND, Conservatives also believe in SMARTER Government...they just want it SMALLER, TOO!!!
Ed Rollins is a liberal POS!
The Republican party either moves away from the center or it’s history.
Relax everyone it’s CNN.
Considering that the Republican party is left of center, moving to the center would be a step in the right direction.
Bad things happen in the center...
Exactly, but "they" won't, because "they" are freakin' tone deaf and too busy chasing the bread, circus and fringe groups power ring that liberal democrats have already snagged and secured. The GOP- stupid and dead in the water, drifting out to oblivion.
These limp-wristed dweebs should just cap their incessant sniveling about moving towards 'center'.
Nam Vet
Repubs need to work on a new "Contract with America", where they promise to work at moving the things the feds do to the states, reserving for the feds only those things that are specifically mentioned in the Constitution.
Then they can tell the states to handle them as they see fit, and drop the financing for them, therby lowering federal taxes (this must be spelled out - the lowering taxes part. Cynical people may get the idea that the feds will keep the current tax rate and use the money for other things, thereby increasing taxes paid even further).
Moving things the feds do illegally, and by that I mean they are Constitutionally for the states to manage, will lower what the feds are allowed to do. This will help make the fed smaller, taxes should drop accordingly, things move to the states where they are easier to manage by the people (the closer your government is to you, the easeir it is to control).
The judiciary is the difficult part. Getting them off their "Commerce Clause" high horse will be difficult, but states passing amendments asserting their 10th amendment rights should help. The more states that do this, the better off we'll be to fight the inevitable temper tantrum that is to come.
The objective is to remove the power grabbed by the feds and restore it to the states where our Founders intended it to be, thereby weakening the feds vis-a-vis the states, but still leaving them with the power and responsibilities delegated to it by the Constitution. Power shifts to the state legislature (I'm sure the state politicians will love this part, thereby gathering them to our side), and the people will have more control.
Sure, there will be those that say the states will do things differently and it will be a hodge-podge of laws and freedoms from stae to state, but that's what the Founders intended. If you don't like how your state does things either 1) Work to change it or, 2) Move to a state that does (it's called voting with your feet).
Face it...it's us against them when it comes to our money and our liberty.
The whole lot of them need to move up to some libertarian ideas.
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