Posts Tagged ‘Future of the Republican Party’

Thursday, November 6th, 2008 at 6:44pm

Bloodletting

Posted by Tom Skypek in Media, The American Presidency

Congratulations to President-elect Obama. He won a decisive victory on Tuesday. It is my sincere hope that he makes good on his campaign promises of bipartisanship and governs from the center. I hope that he does not embrace the liberal policy proposals of Nancy Pelosi and Co., such as the Fairness Doctrine or the Freedom of Choice Act. It was an historic election that could only have happened in one country, but I have always been proud of my country and I’ve never needed an election result to validate my belief in American Exceptionalism.

As for the Republican Party, we need new blood. We have strayed from our core beliefs of small government, personal responsibility and liberty. This election was not…

Sunday, August 31st, 2008 at 4:20pm

A Win for Conservatism

Posted by Reggie Gibbs in Media, The American Presidency

The most important thing McCain’s choice of Palin does, first and foremost, is put conservatism back in the lead as the guiding governing ideology of the Republican Party. With the selection of McCain as the nominee (and, as most of you know, he was my second choice) many were worried that conservatism was being relegated to the closet as the more moderate to liberal (i.e. Rockefeller) wing of the party was in ascendancy. If McCain had picked Ridge or Liebermann, and even in my opinion Pawlenty, I, like many others, would have been seriously concerned about the future of conservatism in this party, and hence the country. But I was willing to support this because of the horrors I believe…

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