Ten things I've learned from Republican leaders in 2009:
- Empathy is bad
- Leaving your job halfway through the term isn't quitting, even if you don't have a new job lined up yet
- Gays are ruining marriage, not heterosexual governors and senators who commit adultery
- It's better to whine and complain about the other guy's ideas than to come up with your own solutions
- Prove you're the Big Tent Party by celebrating when members leave (Arlen Spector) and urging others (Colin Powell) to get out, too
- We don't torture, but if we do, we call it "enhanced interrogation"
- States that don't like the federal government should secede, because it worked so well 150 years ago
- Always keep a short term perspective, particularly when it comes to recovering from an economic crisis
- If the Vice President did it, it wasn't illegal
- When all else fails, blame David Letterman
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And the very worst thing of all is that there are some very good Republicans with strong loyalty, clever ideas, and a lot of love for the United States of America and what it has traditionally stood for who are being dragged kicking and screaming into the morass due to guilt by association by only a few of the GOP - but the few who are newsworthy, making headlines and shrieking loudly enough to drown out the rational voice.
There probably should be a "New Republican" party for that minority, and allow the "old school" Republicans to try to maintain the sane and rational party they have had...
Which will probably happen right after Washington opens that flying monkey school...
I remain,
Sincerely,
Eric L. Sofer
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The Bad Clown...
Paul,
I have heard you state on WLS before that you are a libertarian.
Yet, I never hear you rail against Democrats for their strong promotion of welfare and amnesty (personally, I think you are not as vocal with political opinions, putting left vs. right aside, as the WLS hosts you sometimes fill in for). As we are now seeing, Democrats are not handling our money any better, nor are they concerned with our debt anymore than Republicans were.
I'm not a Republican apologist. Your list citing recent Republican-related blunders is accurate. But how come you don't rail against the federal government's take over of Detroit (as detailed in the recent issue of Reason Magazine)? I understand that Republicans did a lot of things wrong, but I don't necessarily believe that everything the Democrats are on the verge of doing (or have already done) will make our country better in the long-term.
Libertarians, especially Ron Paul, are the only ones who actually seem to understand our long-term debt and how it will soon spiral out of control.
Whether it's KTRS or WLS, I find you to be more refreshing than the hosts you fill-in for, only because I don't have to hear "everything conservatives do is correct and liberals are all socialist who are going to take over the world." But, while the recent Republican Party has been a joke, I don't see much more promise from Democrats.
We hav e also learned that
name calling for the sake of entertainment is harmful to real discussion
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