GOP Dissatisfaction - It is Time to Elect the Base By Daniel Muniz
The Republican rank and file constantly complains that the party in general and the president in particular should have listened more to its base if they wanted to keep control of Congress. Conservative editorials and talk show hosts have echoed this complaint but the party seems destined to repeat the same errors especially when it continues to choose many of the same big spending, flip-flopping politicians for its leadership.
I have personally felt that many of these complaints are hollow because the party needs to start electing people who are actually part of the base in order for real change to happen.
For example, George W. Bush is the standard bearer of the Republican Party not because he is a solid conservative but because he is electable. And the same can be said of too many Republicans who hold elected office but have absolutely no vision of conservatism or of how to reform our bloated bureaucratic government.
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