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GOP Lite
Kevin Drum at The Washington Monthly is as astounded as I at the new GOP The American Families Agenda.
It is not just what is in it:
* Lower gas prices and energy costs
* Provide for a family-friendly work week
* Grow our small businesses
* Allow workers to take their benefits with them when they change jobs
* Take care of our parents and grandparents
* Assure health care for all
* Make prevention a national priority
* Crackdown on child predators and gangs
* Provide health care for our neediest children
* Reduce the costs and burden of college tuition
* Ensure every child in America can read and write
* Increase local control
* Ensure our schools perform for our children
* Take care of our troops, veterans and their families
* Win the war on terror
* Secure our borders
But what is not:
parental notification laws,
constitutional bans on gay marriage,
prayer in public schools,
promotion of two-parent families,
abstinence-only sex ed
internet porn crackdowns.
Flag burning amendments
While I am not persuaded that it is sincere, it does reflect the awareness that the conventional wisdom is moving away from the GOP and if they want to win any but safe races they need to adapt. My problem is that I just do not trust Republican’s and the only way to find out if they are serious about change is to take an unacceptable risk and vote for them.
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4 Responses to “GOP Lite”
looks like the GOP silly-putty lifted the Dem agenda.
How original.
Is this about a chnage of heart or about elections?
That is the question.
When the GOP gets pasted in November, maybe this platform will indeed be what they run on.
A list of feel good items is not a platform. It is the actual policy proposals that are important. It is like Senator Obama wanting to have free college for everyone without discussing how he plans to maintain an all voluntary military at the same time. It is also that Senator Obama does not discuss where the extra capacity for college students will come from, or what they will study that the U.S. needs more of, or how will affect employers who need tradesmen instead of cubicle sitting college graduates.