15 February 2014

Rand Paul and the "New" GOP

According to the internet, Rand Paul has some new ideas on revitalizing the Republican Party.
Rand Paul’s Prediction About Future Presidential Elections May Frighten Half the Country

The new ideas are the same ones that have been floating around since the party autopsy report after the 2012 election. The GOP needs better advertising so it can appeal to more voters.

Here's a genuine conservative idea. Instead of making a "new" GOP, why don't we go back to the one that almost worked? Why don't we fix the party by undoing the changes made since 2008?

Let's review the history. In 1994, Republicans won control of Congress, but Democrats still held the presidency. In 2000, we got what we had been working toward, effective control of the government. That's when things began to go wrong.

Under the Bush administration we saw tax cuts, but we saw nothing else the GOP had promised America. All the grand talk about limited government went out the window. All pretense of fiscal responsibility vanished as Republicans began to out-pork-barrel the Democrats. The science denial movement finally got national political support.