The Republican Party Looks to Repair Its Image

For too long now the republican platform has been too weak on substance in not stressing to the American voters that we - the republicans - stand for small government, lower taxes, term limits, and end to Congressional Relief Action Programs...CRAP!

Frankly, it's high time the parties went away in favor of patriots who are duty bound to preserve the tenets of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, the constituents (for whom they work) and the president.

The President proposes and the congress disposes, therefore since we have bloated government, high taxes, loss of founding principles to greed, graft in the form of "political contributions", lobbying, etc., it's because they want it that way, therefore NEVER vote for either an incumbant or a democrat...and the liberal republicans do not exist since if they claim to be such they're lying through their yellow, cigar stained, teeth because he who claims to be a liberal republican is sucking up to the conservative voters while voting and supporting the radicals, otherwise known as democrats.

My dad always said: "The politician will give you something with one hand while taking it back with the other." I see evidence of that right now and if the congress would give us (U.S.) the Fair Tax the offshore money would pour into the country since the IRS would be history under the Fair Tax with the repeal of the 16th amendment. That would repair the decades of our mismanaged money and many other countries have already adopted it and are doing quite well.

When republicans fail to vote or write-in some name on the ballot they are foolish. When they vote for a third party candidate, they waste the vote - and that doesn't send any message to anyone. In Oklahoma the ballot has a black line connecting the choice - it goes into the counting machine and no hanky-panky is able to be done - absentee voting is risky, early voting is a risky and none of that should be allowed - Question: How many who voted early for Omama found out more facts close to election day and realized they made a mistake?

On way we can all help is to tell all those with whom we see that we must get the democrats our of our government. W.Wilson gave us the FED in 1913 with NO ratification...J.P.Morgan financed his election campaign. FDR prolonged the depression with schemes of hiring to get votes, only to lay off those after the election was over. LBJ gave us the Great Society, a 5-trillion dollar mistake and escalated the Vietnmam War. Carter gave away the Panama Canal and got us 13% inflation and lowsy government. JFK was not the worst of the lot. Clinton was, as my dad also said: "The World's best politican but the World's worst president. His demeaning of the office of the presidency and the Lewinsky episodes should have got him removed from office - but then, the democrats protect their own quite well!

Ronald Reagan brought us out of the Carter years quite well, but the democrats hate his memory - he made fools of them!

Don P. Simons of OK 9:25AM May 10, 2009

you said so your self,by the way are you one two!because of the choice of comment's.I would bet you are one of those wooden teeth joker's too!if you don't have a common solution for the common AMERICAN.Be it ghetto black,trailer trash white or asian persauion,please excuse my spelling ,i am not as smart as you are.Oh yeah don't let me forget my wet back amigo's.people like yourself think you are so politiclly correct.i don't think so.So until you give PRESIDENT OBAMA the same time you gave W.I don't want to hear it!oh yeah ! you are also a liar.you should know about wealth building ,you sho nuff got it out of ole gran pa nim!and by the way can you guys please return my lawn mower and the United States of America back to it's rightful owners that would be the RED MAN.like everything else you'all have stolen.Mr Great wealth builder!

eric b. of GA 6:12PM April 24, 2009

We now have a president who has advanced because of the Civil Rights movement...not because of political experience! People voted for him because he made them "feel good", and why not?...he's a good speaker! But speaking doesn't produce substance! The President's platform has already changed remarkably since his election, though, but I guess that will be attributed to the many "false starts" comment he made during his inaugural speech. And he inherited the problems from the Bush era? Yes, he did inherit a 1.3 trillion dollar deficit - so what better way to combat that than by taxing and spending on a Federal level ad infinitum! Spending in the New Administration's first 100 days has already tripled the amount of the deficit left by Bush's ENTIRE PRESIDENCY! That doesn't sound like fiscal responsibility to me. Let's also keep things in perspective...Rush L. may have been addicted to pain killers, but no-one can call him a tax cheat! How many of those do we have in the New Democratic Cabinet? And I don't agree with everything Rush and Hannity say, but their ideas would contribute more to economic recovery than idealism does...and will!

I'm all for seeing a black American as President. Next election, Bobby Jindal should run for president...maybe we could even have some Hispanic or Asian contenders in the race as well. I wouldn't care, as long as Marxist ideas and "wealth redistribution" weren't pushed. As a people, we have the responsibility to support the elderly and the developmentally disabled. Sure, give a divorced mother some financial help while she gets back on her feet...but everyone else should create their own wealth! Government shouldn't seek to ride on the backs of the innovators who create wealth - that destroys the incentive to create wealth in the first place! People shouldn't fall back on the adage "The man is keeping me down!" People choose to keep themselves down, and I would know...I grew up in a country where I was hated for the color of my skin! Didn't stop me from going to college, from continually educating myself, and from staying informed. I saw others make that claim, though...blaming "those greedy businessmen" for their woes, and looking to the government for a handout, for health coverage, and for whatever needs they had. We should be a nation where the government seeks dependency on its people, not the people on the government. Yes, we've got 'Change'...better hope it's not a change in the wrong direction!

Simon of CA 6:26PM April 04, 2009

The days of R. Regan or even a Bush Sr are over. The Republican party is so desperate and out of touch they have a mean, fat deaf guy in charge of thier agenda. Better off courting Bill Clinton for a third term if they get a chance, at least he was fiscally conservative.

Right now, people just hear Limbaugh selling hate. What Americans want is leadership.....they want jobs, and to deal with real problems in the environment and economy. Rush will tell you Obama is going to 'tax cow farts'. Guess what....when you don't have a job and your kids are on drugs you dont care about cow fart taxes.

Todd of CO 11:34AM March 29, 2009