AuH20
01-13-2012, 11:11 PM
I feel sorry for this guy. He should ask for his money back from Georgetown. Poor institutionalized sap.
http://nextgenjournal.com/2012/01/the-crazies-how-the-republican-party-should-respond-to-the-extremists-within/
Fast-forward to the present. The Republican Party has been swept up in the populist uprising known as the Tea Party. Candidates like Christine O’Donnell in Delaware have managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Ron Paul is a serious candidate for the presidency, calmly lecturing crowds of Iowans about the virtues of isolationism and the gold standard. And Mitt Romney, perhaps the only candidate in the field with a chance of retaking the White House and setting America back on the right track, has been branded as a “Massachusetts Moderate,” a term that now seems to be the king of the “dirty words,” as my grandmother would refer to them.
The problem with the extreme elements in the Tea Party and the “Ron Paul people,” for lack of a better term, is not that they are eccentric, or out of the mainstream, or have “different” ideas for the country, it is that they are dead wrong on major policy questions. This minority in the GOP brought the country to the edge of default, to the brink of a full government shutdown three times, voted to block the extension of unemployment benefits, and fumbled the extension of the payroll tax holiday. Their plan for prosperity is to eliminate whole government departments, liquidate the Federal Reserve, and in some cases, return to the gold standard. Does anyone really think that is a good idea? These extremists’ actions hurt the Republican Party and, more importantly, hurt America as a whole by playing games with people’s livelihoods. The question is, what should the GOP do about it?
http://nextgenjournal.com/2012/01/the-crazies-how-the-republican-party-should-respond-to-the-extremists-within/
Fast-forward to the present. The Republican Party has been swept up in the populist uprising known as the Tea Party. Candidates like Christine O’Donnell in Delaware have managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Ron Paul is a serious candidate for the presidency, calmly lecturing crowds of Iowans about the virtues of isolationism and the gold standard. And Mitt Romney, perhaps the only candidate in the field with a chance of retaking the White House and setting America back on the right track, has been branded as a “Massachusetts Moderate,” a term that now seems to be the king of the “dirty words,” as my grandmother would refer to them.
The problem with the extreme elements in the Tea Party and the “Ron Paul people,” for lack of a better term, is not that they are eccentric, or out of the mainstream, or have “different” ideas for the country, it is that they are dead wrong on major policy questions. This minority in the GOP brought the country to the edge of default, to the brink of a full government shutdown three times, voted to block the extension of unemployment benefits, and fumbled the extension of the payroll tax holiday. Their plan for prosperity is to eliminate whole government departments, liquidate the Federal Reserve, and in some cases, return to the gold standard. Does anyone really think that is a good idea? These extremists’ actions hurt the Republican Party and, more importantly, hurt America as a whole by playing games with people’s livelihoods. The question is, what should the GOP do about it?