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Daily Archives: 14 November 2008
A Good Reminder from a Reagan
Michael Reagan, that is:
There are a lot of meetings going on among some Republicans trying to figure out what went wrong on Election Day and how the party needs to respond. None of them involve what the media like to call the base, the folks at the grass roots whose votes, after all, determine the outcome of elections.
The gatherings get a lot of media attention because the media mistakenly believe that the people attending them represent the grass roots of the GOP.
They don’t. What they represent is the coterie who led the party into eight years of ignoring the traditions and principles of the party pursued so avidly by the Reagan administration, with which they have the effrontery to identify themselves.
As I said before, Reagan would never have proposed or supported the big-government policies that the Bush administration–and its un-conservative Republican allies in Congress–pushed so hard for.
And, it’s clear that this non-conservative Republicanism has been rejected, both in 2006 at the Congressional level and this year at the Presidential level, since McCain agreed with Bush on some of the least conservative of his proposals… No Child Left Behind, the immigration fiasco, and “campaign finance reform” (which Bush signed into law).
The desire of some Republicans to continue down a path that has failed is just as absurd to me as the left’s constant attempts to enact socialism and communism, even though both have been shown to be colossal failures.
If the GOP wants to continue to be the minority, they can follow the path of Bush. If they want to regain the majority, however, they need to follow Reagan.
Another Strong Conservative Campaigns to Lead GOP in Congress
As a follow up to my post yesterday, there’s another good man challenging the old guard for a leadership position:
House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio will face at least one challenger for his leadership position: California Republican Rep. Dan Lungren announced today that he is running for the job.
Republican House leadership elections are currently scheduled to take place next Wednesday on Capitol Hill.
“At the outset, let me say I consider John Boehner a good man—one of honor and integrity—I have been proud to vote for him on the last two occasions,” Lungren wrote in a letter to colleagues announcing his bid.
“However, I am embarking on this effort because I think our Party is in trouble,” he said, voicing fears Republicans “run the risk of becoming a permanent Congressional Minority.”
The American Spectator seems to approve:
… [L]et it be said that Lungren is an underappreciated hero of the conservative cause.
It sounds like there’s even more reason for–dare I say it?–Hope for a Change in the GOP leadership.