Book Proposes Plan to Rebuild the Republican Party

Benefits would not be cut

"Can't be serious" claims reducing the payroll tax would result in Social Security and Medicare benfits beging cut, but this is not so.

Since the 1980s Social Security payroll taxes have exceeded benefits paid. Congress has spent the excess payroll taxes on other things and sent worthless IOUs to the Treasury saying someday we'll pay back the money. We all know that will never happen.

Bringing payroll taxes down to the level needed to pay benefits would eliminate the ability of Congress to spend hundreds of billions of dollars of extra Social Security payroll taxes on other things. And it would leave workers with more of the money they earn to save, spend and invest.

Idiots

Ron Paul is a cynical amoral politician. He has become rich pandering to ignorant racist Texans and other low brow Americans.Thank God John McCain is not like him! Asking republicans to embrace the working class is liking asking a child molester to babysit.

Why would anyone vote for me (John McCain)?

I'm old and out of touch with reality. I have a 1950's "bunker" mentality and people tend to think that I'm a jerk. I flip-flop on the issues and have a political philosophy much like a socialist. I am really not that different from my opponent Barack Obama; who is also a socialist. I have a problem controlling my anger; which is a bad thing for someone who is running for president. I really have no agenda except to keep the war in Iraq going for another 100 years and to make my rich friends even wealthier. I know that Ron Paul is right on every issue, but I can't say that because it would be admitting that I am wrong. I really hate the idea of small government and following the constitution because that is what Ron Paul talks about and I wish I were as smart as he is. I can not possibly win against Obama because I am not popular like he is and no one wants to give me money. I am going to get my clock cleaned by Obama; a guy who speaks well but says nothing. Then again, I don't have much to say myself so maybe I should listen to Ron Paul more often. I know that it is too late now to change the way I am, so I'm just going to run my "campain of fear" and hope that I can scare people into voting for me. That is really all you can do when you are John McCain!

Can't be serious.

I can only judge the book by the review above. But if these two authors think that reducing the payroll tax (so that Social Security and Medicare benefits for parents and grandparents can be gutted) and expanding health savings accounts (to encourage employers to drop group health insurance plans altogether) are popular ideas to recapture young people to the GOP, they're nutty as hooty-owls.

As for giving principals more authority and the superintendent less, fine. But GOP school board members almost always think OPPOSITE of that. The solution for schools is just to elect Democrats in the first place, not to try to change the DNA of the GOP..