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Republicans Go Big.

March 25, 2005

I’ve read a couple editorials this week (mostly from Instapundit.com) about the state of the Republican Party.

In the past two weeks, we may have seen a monumental switch in the Republican Party, from small government to big government. This saddens me. Their insistance on asking Major League Baseball to talk about sterioids and their convening of a special session to create a bill to benefit one person (Shiavo) has ruined their small government stance. Republicans used to stand back and scream when government tried to pry into our lives.

Now it seems the party has been fully co-opted by extremely right-leaning evangelical Christians, bent on pushing their moral/conservative agenda and leaving freedom of choice by the wayside.

With each day I become more upset with the current Republican Party. Big spending is no longer the domain of the Democrats. It is now the domain of the Republican Party. The only thing we can hope for is that the recent uprising of Libertarian groups on college campuses and throughout the blogsphere begin to push a new Republican agenda (b/c we all know that the Libertarian Party will never be able to overtake the Republican Party, but it can take over its leadership.)

Less spending. Less one-sided moral agenda. More freedom of choice. We can only hope.

Posted by paul at March 25, 2005 09:07 PM

Comments

Murph said on March 26, 2005 12:04 AM

Do you think this is something that will involve the Republican Party changing leadership, or do you think the existing party is more likely to fragment and dissolve, with a new party arising (obviously led by one of the fragments...)?

It is interesting just *how* ridiculous this has become, and how quickly. Salon.com was pointing out the other day that all of the major media -- from the NYTimes to Fox News, have done polls that say the wild majority of Americans are against the Repubs on this; some of the polls are as much as 80-some percent against the Repubs, but the media aren't reporting their own polls. Why not? Good to see that the Repubs are quite capable of self-destructing even when the ("liberal") media are lobbing them softballs.

Brandon said on March 26, 2005 01:06 PM

Ah, the uneasy alliance of the party's Libertarian and Moralist factions is finally coming apart. They came together in the 1960s, ascended to dominate national politics, and now may fall apart? I read this book a while back called Suburban Warriors: the Rise of the New American Right that documented the rise of these new Republicans, centering especially on Orange County. Interesting stuff...

Dean said on March 26, 2005 01:17 PM

Paul, don't you think this has been going on for a while now, not just the past two weeks?

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