[Osborn F Enready]

I almost fell over in my chair laughing as I watched C-Span today.

I stumbled across this:

Panel Discussion on Future of Republican Party
Representative Jim Leach (R-IA), Representative Charles Bass (R-NH), Alexander Bolton, Senior Staff Writer for The Hill, and Gail Russell Chaddock, Senior Congressional Correspondent for Christian Science Monitor, talk about the future of the Republican Party.


One of the things that got me the most, was when I believe it was Leach, said "The biggest problem with our current age Republican Party is that we have strayed away from our Libertarian core principles...."

I would say that they should have noticed that when a group felt they should take another stab at that effort by creating the Libertarian Party, which is dedicated to preserving the rights the Republicans and Democrats have been trying to remove or regulate for the last 100 years.

Its like the proverbial wolf in sheeps clothing, comparing modern day republican platforms to the core beliefs that they claim set their foundation. The word conservative, and the word republican, should not be in the same sentence any more. If my home had a foundation with as many holes as theirs, it would have toppled a week after being built.

My question is, that after Bush and his adminstrative leaders he picked for their "leadership qualities" have led us into some of the largest debt known to man, at the hands of foreign banks, hammered generations to come with tax burden we can't even imagine yet, and led so many to war against the core beliefs you claim are in your foundation............How could you ever expect to be taken seriously again, especially concerning liberty or JUSTICE?

At least Leach had the stones to address the problem.

The party has been gutted, by the neocon authoritarian movement. Much like the Democratic Party has been gutted, by the neu-liberal wave of nanny-staters, and socialist theorists.

Until both parties realize the simple lesson, we won't have any progress in the two major parties, and the lesser evill will be harder and harder to distinguish with every passing day. Their is no such thing as a lesser evil, if both entail physical and/or economic servitude.

“Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”
-George Santayana

To the true core idealist republicans reading this, I say check out the Libertarian Party who stakes their existence on protecting what Republicans long ago strayed from, and now seek to regulate or abolish....... The Limited Central Government specified in the Constitution, the Rights and Protections enumerated in the Bill of Rights, and the economic freedom of a free market with regulated corporations that are regulated by the people, not the elites. Basicly, the system that built this nation with the blood of patriots and tyrants, in the quest for liberty and justice.

Thank you C-Span, for remaining one of the last vestiges for truth and a lack of bias in the wide world of media.

“This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.”
-Hugh Downs, 1997

“The business of skepticism is to be dangerous. Skepticism challenges established institutions. If we teach everybody, including, say, high school students, habits of skeptical thought, they will probably not restrict their skepticism to UFOs, aspirin commercials, and 35,000-year-old channelees. Maybe they'll start asking awkward questions about economic, or social, or political, or religious institutions. Perhaps they'll challenge the opinions of those in power. Then where would we be?”
-Carl Sagan, in The Demon-Haunted World (Sagan encouraged skepticism on all these subjects - he was simply articulating why the establishment is wary of it.)

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
-Henry Ford, a man admired by Adolf Hitler

“...all of us here at the policy-making level have had experience with directives... from the White House.... The substance of them is that we shall use our grant-making power so as to alter our life in the United States that we can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union.”
-H. Rowan Gaither, Jr., President, Ford Foundation, to Norman Dodd, Congressional Reese Commission, 1954

“What luck for the rulers that men do not think.”
-Adolf Hitler

“You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.”
-Charles Manson, leader of a murderous cult of entirely unskeptical followers