Posted by
Jim Knowlton on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 1:43:46 PM
I became a Republican because we were the party of ideas. I read "Conscience of a Conservative", "God and Man at Yale", "The Conservative Mind." I entrusiastically supported Ronald Reagan. I less-enthusiastically supported other Republicans running for President.
But what has happened to my party?
The party of ideas has turned into the party of victimhood and resentment. The latest flap about Obama's "lipstick" comment is silly and contrived. And how will it truly help Americans? I'd like to see the campaign spend less time on these kinds of schoolyard attacks (after all, McCain used the same words to refer to Hillary Clinton) and more energy put into specific proposals, not just general statements, concerning the size of government, energy, the economy, etc.
How's about it Republicans...let's put down the "insult stick" and start talking about real plans, of which ours are clearly superior.