Cal Thomas: “Get Back”
Truer words have never been spoken. Glad to see someone else out there realizes what’s going on within our party.
From RealClearPolitics:
“Get back, get back. Get back to where you once belonged.” — The Beatles
The Republican Party is in distress. Doomsayers are everywhere. Republican National Committee Chairman Robert M. Duncan complains that conservative, pro-life, pro-gun Democrats won three special elections by stealing GOP issues.
“We can’t let the Democrats take our issues,” Duncan told the New York Times. “We can’t let them pretend to be conservatives and co-opt the middle and win these elections. We have to get the attention of our incumbents and candidates and make sure they understand this.”
Democrats didn’t steal your issues, sir. You abandoned them. Your party discarded them. Democrats simply engaged in dumpster harvesting.
Unable to win by labeling Democrats “liberals,” Republicans don’t know what to do. Labeling worked before. Why isn’t it working now? The answer is that it only works in combination with superior ideas, which you then contrast to those of your “liberal” opponent. You can’t do that credibly unless you have embraced those ideas and sought to implement them. Republicans traded in their ideas in favor of gaining and keeping power as their sole objective. The party wants credit for giving lip service to its abandoned ideology while it practices cave-in politics.
Read the rest at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/gop_get_back.html
