I remember when Michael Steele was running for the Maryland governorship, he tries to play the "nice guy" card and came across as lacking any fortitude.
I doubt seriously that the reason that he's moved up in the party, is his cajones. -- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer 4405 Oakshyre Way Raleigh, NC 27616 (h) 919.874.6229 (c) 703.220.2835 -----Original Message----- From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 10:34 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: What's This Growing Here? > LL wrote: > With any luck they'll finish the implosion of the current version of the Republican party It's just odd what happened to them. You basically had this coalition of conservatives (fiscal, social, & foreign policy) that mostly talked fiscal and foreign policy. That started to change with Newt and then REALLY changed with Tom Delay, Grover Cleavland, Robert Reed, and Jack Abramoff: they realized what southern preachers had known for decades: you can make a ton a dough off of the religious. Essentially a major wing of the Republicans became crooks running payola scams off of church-goers. While they were busy running that show, the foreign policy reactionaries moved so far right they completed the circle and became liberals and the neo-cons were born. Of course they're actually pro-government authoritarians as long as the government is theirs (which is what authoritarian really is). And to top it all off, the fiscal conservatives were totally drowned out. So what you now have left is an extremist mess of a Republican party that's quickly becoming a regional one (southern). Meanwhile America is becoming more socially liberal and Regan levels of taxes and spending seem "liberal". The best thing the Republicans could do is create a new set of principles and then work with Obama to accomplish them. Their message should be lower taxes through better managed more effective government. They need to become the CPA party. And, crazy as it is to say, the one guy that seems to know that is Michael Steele. His problem is that he doesn't have the cajones to take on Limbaugh and the rest to make it happen. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:295080 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
