As the Republican Party sinks ever further out of power, it is disheartening to listen to explanations from the party regulars: the war, the economy, George Bush, John McCain, "Obama's use of technologyto organize and energize his base", yada yada.
What no one seems to want to talk about is the problematic coalition which makes up the GOP power base - a coalition which conflates conservative social values, conservative fiscal values, and conservativegovernance values. Out of good intentions, they have created a three-headed monster!
I'm fed up with being told I have to choose between a "tax and spend"socialist nanny state (Democrats) and a "fiscally conservative"theocratic nanny state (Republicans). Republicans need to get "family values" out of their policy statements and leave them to families, focusing their policies on fiscal conservatism and limited government!
They are failing to accomplish these latter goals because they are losing too many liberty-minded voters on the so-called "family values" issues. "Family values" don't come from a political party, they come from families. A political party needs policies based on the instruments of democracy,not on the dogma of theocracy!
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