what happened to old school republicanism?

[violentkitten]

i remember when the republican party was the party of balanced budgets, no foreign entanglements, main street not wall street business, staying out of our bedrooms, and not bent on turning this country into some kind of southern fried revialist militarist state. wtf happened?

also the republican party has been in control of congress for basically a decade now and what tax reform has there been. sure there have been some rate cuts but they didnt get rid of the amt. they didnt get rid of a myriad of loopholes that allow the wealthy and connected to get out of paying their fair share.

man wtf. i dont want the socialism the democrats offer but i also dont want this bull calling itself the republican party

[JoeChalupa]

Probably the same thing that happened to the old democratic party.

I don't want the far-right, ultra-conservatism of the republican party but I also don't want the bull- calling itself the democratic party.

[Guru of Nothing]

NBADan and Yonivore "are" WTF happened to your respective parties.

[Nbadan]

NBADan and Yonivore "are" WTF happened to your respective parties.

Don't group me in with Republican or Democrat failings. I've been saying for some time that the DLC and the DNC, supporters of Gore and Kerry, were losers. I lean more toward the Progressive wing that wants to reform the party and place its future in the hands of Populists like Howard Dean and Barbara Boxer.

Clinton rode Populism into office in 92 (anyone remember the town hall meetings?), and I think that in order to overwhelmingly win the Presidency, which the Demo's would have to do because of built-in fraud in the U.S. election system, they must find a Southern Populist Progressive.

[travis2]

Don't group me in with Republican or Democrat failings. I've been saying for some time that the DLC and the DNC, supporters of Gore and Kerry, were losers. I lean more toward the Progressive wing that wants to reform the party and place its future in the hands of Populists like Howard Dean and Barbara Boxer.

Ummmmm...that's exactly the "bull- calling itself the democratic party" that Joe was talking about.

You're part of the problem.

[violentkitten]

youre part of the problem too man.

[travis2]

youre part of the problem too man.

Pardon me if I don't place much stock in your opinion of me right now...

[JoeChalupa]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Nbadan
Don't group me in with Republican or Democrat failings. I've been saying for some time that the DLC and the DNC, supporters of Gore and Kerry, were losers. I lean more toward the Progressive wing that wants to reform the party and place its future in the hands of Populists like Howard Dean and Barbara Boxer.

Ummmmm...that's exactly the "bull- calling itself the democratic party" that Joe was talking about.

You're part of the problem.

I want the Democrtatic party of JFK. When the term "liberal" meant striving for equal rights and justice for all, a stong America that will be a leader of the world and the defender of human rights.

Barbara Boxer is too far to the left for my liking.
Howard Dean has some policy ideas that I do not agree with but also some that I do.

Democrats need to get people to understand that being "pro-choice" does NOT mean you are pro-abortion (which I still cannot get Yonivore to understand).
JFK made it clear that he was not a Catholic President but rather a President who happened to be Catholic.