Posted by
KsReaganite on Saturday, January 06, 2007 7:32:53 PM
There was a time in the fifties, sixties, and seventies when the only difference between Republicans (where they existed north of the Mason Dixon line) and the Democrats was this: Republicans wanted to do all the good, 'progressive', nice things that Democrats wanted to do as well but with a two percent less of a tax burden and six fewer bureaucrats. After all, someone had to pay the country club dues.
It was also a time when a handshake meant a contract and when parents thought of their children's safety and happiness rather than their own self-'fulfillment'. People got a real education in schools, schools that reinforced the values of the home.
Those days were good...and they are long gone. It is a reality rather lost on the self-proclaimed 'traditional' Republicans in the Midwest. If only we could return to 'civility', they bleat and blather. In other words, they want the party to go back to being the permanent junior partner to the liberal Democratic establishment that already runs the bar, the bench, the print media, and the civil service.
Thanks, but no thanks. It is too high a price to pay for a civility that borders on subservience.