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GOP CONUNDRUM: MCCAIN VICTORY WILL DELAY PARTY REFORM
Rick, I can't agree.
The best way to improve the Republican brand is with a successful McCain administration (one-term, IMHO) that brings through one or two items of serious bipartisan reform (slaying the earmark beast, for example). More than that we can't expect out of him, but that in itself would be worthwhile.
Absent a true disaster, their will never be a slate-clearing 100 days for Conservatives. Our victories will be offset by defeats and slips, and the same political shenanigans that Washington embodies.
The "younger generation" reached the majors by the same process as their elders, give them some time in Washington, they two will have swimming pools full of lobbyists. It's the nature of the place.
A serious Conservative congress and administrations should focus on these things, in order:
1. Government issues: increasing transparency, decreasing lobbyism, decreasing the budget, reforming entitlements. Serious and revenue-negative tax reform.
2. Economic issues: reducing government oversight of resources and capital management while INcreasing the investigative and punitive authority over business fraud. We should be making it easier to start business that make and do things, and more dangerous for the upper echelon of the corporate world to string their bottom-line along. Phase out all government corporations, from Fannie and Freddie to Amtrak.
3. Foreign Policy -- maintain the sea lanes, protect our allies, hunt our enemies. The rest is mere details. Tell the UN to bugger itself.
4. Cultural Issues -- Our motto needs to be "IATFL" Irrelevant At The Federal Level. In other words, its time to remember what the 10th Amendment states, and start reminding everyone else-- from the Supremes on down.
If McCain can manage any of the first or fourth, he'll make it easier for the second and the third. We need to keep this in mind during the myriad of boneheaded plays he'll lay down. He's not our kind of guy, but he represents an opportunity in exactly his area of experience. We would be foolish indeed to pass that up so we can have the next Newt Gingrich. In the end, both serve us in a similar manner.
Comment Posted By Andrew the Noisy On 24.09.2008 @ 08:00
