http://www.sundriesshack.com/2008/01/22/here-i-stand/ Delivering the Best of the New Media Since 2004. Thu, 24 May 2012 03:48:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.sundriesshack.com/2008/01/22/here-i-stand/comment-page-1/#comment-611154 suek Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:59:36 +0000 http://www.sundriesshack.com/?p=3936#comment-611154 The Dems have gone so far to the left that they have left their constituents. People like McCain should be called Dems, but the party has gone so far to the left that he - and many others - think they must be Republicans. Not a new concept, I'm sure. The result of this, though, is that the Republican party has been reshaped into a "Centrist" party. We haven't increased the number of Conservatives in the party, we've been co-opted by those who have always believed in goverment as the solution to all those little personal problems like incompetence in life with resultant failure to achieve. Unfortunately, I don't see a solution. Conservatives could break away and form another party, but that would probably mean no say in national politics for years to come. They could move into another party like the Libertarian party and reshape it as Repubs have been reshaped. Is reclaiming the party an option? I don't think so, but that's also the only way I see to hold onto potential political power. I think that's the only realistic solution, but how to do that? There's the rub. Like belling the cat - easy to say, not so easy to do. The Dems have gone so far to the left that they have left their constituents. People like McCain should be called Dems, but the party has gone so far to the left that he – and many others – think they must be Republicans. Not a new concept, I'm sure. The result of this, though, is that the Republican party has been reshaped into a "Centrist" party. We haven't increased the number of Conservatives in the party, we've been co-opted by those who have always believed in goverment as the solution to all those little personal problems like incompetence in life with resultant failure to achieve. Unfortunately, I don't see a solution. Conservatives could break away and form another party, but that would probably mean no say in national politics for years to come. They could move into another party like the Libertarian party and reshape it as Repubs have been reshaped. Is reclaiming the party an option? I don't think so, but that's also the only way I see to hold onto potential political power. I think that's the only realistic solution, but how to do that? There's the rub. Like belling the cat – easy to say, not so easy to do.

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