Cardiff: I’m not blaming Palin solely for the decline of GOP fortunes, but I am using her as the latest and greatest manifestation of our woes.
You mention Gingrich and a lot of folks don’t remember that he was the architect of Contract with America, which was a damn good program and he did an excellent job of articulating the core conservative values that that program represented.
As Lord Acton said: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. Well, we’ve seen that writ large in the last eight years and the last vestiges of Goldwater Republicanism have been swept away by a profligacy and stupidity unparalleled in our party’s history. Socialism came to America courtesy of the GOP – the very party that was supposedly there to fight it to the death.
We need to spend some time in the wilderness and rediscover those things that made the GOP the standard bearer of this country.
If we’re being honest, the Dems haven’t had an original idea since LBJ’s Great Society program and the leftist junta that drives that engine is going to swamp this country with feel good PC claptrap for the next four (or, God forbid, eight) years. Just enough time for us to get our shit together and put us back on the true path.
