Not featured in the traditional media: Why the GOP Should Lose in 2006
something else that deserves wide media attention, and, of course, won't get it...
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Why are Republican conservatives calling for an end to One Party GOP Rule?
Why are many now discussing the virtues of divided government?
On what basis do they believe One Party Rule has dishonored conservative values?
The seven prominent Republican conservatives who contributed to the Washington Monthly remarkable feature article, "Time for Us to Go: Conservatives on Why the GOP Should Lose in 2006," did not dwell on contrived wedge issues promoted by Republican marketing consultants.
They focused, instead, on the neglected limited government ideals on which the conservative movement was founded:
- individual freedom
- fiscal responsibility
- constitutional restraints on unchecked executive power
Why do these conservatives believe today's Republican Party has betrayed these values?
- prudent and principled foreign policy
How has it come about that today's authoritarian, big government GOP has maintained the language of traditional conservatism even while mutating into a governing party whose policies produce the opposite?
Principled conservatives now widely recognize that the authoritarian, fear mongering, Big Brother, big government ideology peddled by GOP politicians and pseudo-populist radio demagogues is anything but conservative.
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posted by profmarcus at
10/26/2006
