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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Splashdown on November 05, 2009, 09:05:21 AM
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Can It Be? A Party for Capitalism?
By David Harsanyi
For perhaps the first time in American history, seemingly rational adults will sit down and spend significant time dissecting the off-off-year elections in Virginia, New Jersey and New York's much-discussed 23rd Congressional District.
Naturally, a consensus will emerge:
The angry, hard-right, radical, insane (etc.) conservative base has hijacked the Republican Party and, in the process, further alienated a beleaguered nation -- a nation that apparently is hankering for tripling deficits and government takeovers of the health care, energy, banking and car industries.
Like Democrats, I, too, hope Republicans suffer. By focusing on needless culture wars, nurturing government centralization and growth, and spending without restraint, the GOP has downgraded fiscal conservatism to nothing more than election-time rhetoric over the past decade. And not surprisingly, Republican identification is also at an all-time low.
Link (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/05/can_it_be_a_party_for_capitalism_99000.html)
He makes a pretty good point...
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Yeah. Ouch.