I want my Republcan Party back

In 1976 I dutifully registered to vote and I registered as a Republican. There were few Republicans in my home state of Georgia at that time. The South was a confused democrat stronghold. Latter that year I voted for Gerald Ford on the morning of Election Day and that afternoon I went to Plains for the party all of us college kids knew was going on.  I shook then President elect Carter’s hand as he passed though the crowd and continued to enjoy the party thinking I had shaken the hand of the most powerful man in the world. Little did I know that man would pave the way for the election of the most important figure of the second half of the twentieth century—Ronald Reagan.

What Reagan accomplished was really unbelievable. He ended the cold war. He cut taxes and made it politically polite to support small government. It was great to be an American and ok to be proud again after 15 years of malaise. People like Dick Armey, Phil Gramm, Barry Goldwater, and Howard Baker were power players in Washington. He paved the way for a Republican majority in the Senate. It was cool to Republican. Republican meant you were for small government, individual freedom, less spending and less tax.

Somewhere in the effort to be “compassionate conservatives” and to maintain power the Republicans changed. Alan Greenspan says, ”They swapped principle for power.” Today there are very few in the party who are stalwarts of conservative principles like Goldwater and Armey.  Today a Congressman voting with the party usually means he is supporting a long list of earmarks attached to war spending bills or prescription drug benefit bills.

In our own State our Republican candidates can hardly be distinguished from their democrat opponents. Is there really any major difference between Jindal, Georges and Boasso?  For the first time in my 23 years of living here I am not voting in the election for Governor.  I voted for Edwin Edwards when he ran against Duke but other than that I have voted Republican every time.

We need a viable, real Ronald Reagan Republican party in this state. We have tried socialism long enough. I hope the Republican powers that be insists the party move back to its principles.

Comments:

If lightweight political hack and sophomoric shakedown artist Royal Alexander is the best and brightest candidate the GOP could field for Attorney General, than the Party is in sad shape.  If Dan Kyle’s semi-coherent rant (before a legislative hearing investing DAN KYLE) is the darkest dirt Royal can dig on Buddy Caldwell, than DA Caldwell is a saint.  The Party should have dumped this dangerous liability and supported DA Caldwell against Chuck E. Foti.
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