On...Republican Reform

The New Right

Brand-names are very useful. The GOP is far from ruined as many wishful thinking wags would like to suggest. Diminished under Bush/Cheney? No doubt. In hibernation? Yes. In need of new blood and new vision? Definitely.

Included here are 3 essays all dealing with this theme.

• Ross Douthat, now at the New York Times, adds his 2 cents.
  
• Joe Scarborough sounds off over at Newsweek
  
• James Forsyth looks at the Tory model in The Washington Post.
  

Hopefully the GOP can be molded along these lines.

And more importantly, Dick Cheney can shut up and go back to Wyoming. When did he get so talkative? Even when he's right about something it seems dirty and cold.

Time to revist my old doctrine of convervative virtues. On...Principles. Always good for a refresher.

RIP: Jack Kemp

RIP Jack Kemp

I still have my Dole/Kemp Poster somewhere in the basement. Ah, the naivety of youth.

OBITUARY
From Richard Brookhiser
Kemp's VP Acceptance Speech

On...RNC Chair...from Michigan?

I don't know this guy at all but the Michigan Republican Party is a huge joke and has been since I've lived in this state (1993) I mean really pathetic. What makes anyone think Saul Anuzis can run the National Party?

Granted I will give the guy the benefit of the doubt and maybe he has good "national" ideas but really. The GOP can't win anything in this state. No organization, no communication, no ideas, no focus, and apparently no candidates, and when they get a half decent one (Michael Bouchard) they have no idea what to do with them or how to really support them. The Michigan Republican Party is provincial and stagnant. And if anyone can prove otherwise please let me know.

NEWS BLURB