On the Death of the Republican Party

"We are one nation--that means if we make a mistake, we make it as a single country."- Mike Huckabee
"No. When we make a mistake it is the obligation of the people through their representatives to correct the mistake, not to continue the mistake." - Ron Paul

The fact that the first guy is considered a viable candidate for president and the second a crack pot is the reason why this party will go down in flames, having totally lost sight of anything it claimed to believe in, instead resorting to empty jingoism. This compacted with the fact that Rudy Guiliani (the supposed social liberal, fiscal conservative) spent the entire debate last night laughing at everything Ron Paul said (the constitution, ha ha) means they are dead to me.

What happened? 15 years ago they were talking about things like the contract with america, limited government, and a total contraction of federal power. Now under Bush spending has increased dramatically (yet taxes are lower, the reason is insane deficit spending, essentially stealing from my generation before we even have a chance to earn) more and more departments of gov't are being created and the patriot act has been one of the greatest attacks on civil liberties in years. Add to this Kelo v. New London (not their fault but actually the most subversive development) and the past 6 years have been a total nightmare, with nothing in terms of domestic policy which is a roll back of federal power. Oh yeah there's also the Iraq war which has absurd costs in human life, foreign diplomacy, and the afforementioned loans which my generation will have to pay for later.

What happened of course is 9-11 happened. A republican president, and a republican congress, and an american people rallied behind their gov't wanting them to do a good job. And they fucked up. They fucked up big time. Of course the democrats were either too pussy to actually challenge them on anything or were more calculating, realizing that they could just give the republicans enough rope to hang themselves and take power later. Just spineless politicians at work, with little interesting them other than the quest for power, and the quest to make big important decisions where really more often than not, no one is needed to make such decisions.

So I retire from caring about either of the major parties. They are hollow, and empty and each house only a few individuals worthy of support. All I ask is divided gov't. None of Huckabee's empty buzz words about unity we need fucking DEBATE. So that when one party over steps its bounds, the other party at least has the guts to stand up to it. The less gov't decisions actually made, the better off we all are.