Posted 11:48 AM by Steve
We need to hear the Republican leadership say things like this:

"We, the members of the New Republican Party, believe that
the preservation and enhancement of the values that strengthen
and protect individual freedom, family life, communities and
neighborhoods and the liberty of our beloved nation should be at
the heart of any legislative or political program presented to
the American people.... Our task now is not to sell a philosophy,
but to make the majority of Americans, who already share that
philosophy, see that modern conservatism offers them a political
home. We are not a cult, we are members of a majority. Let's act
and talk like it. The job is ours and the job must be done. If not
by us, who? If not now, when? Our party must be the party of the
individual. It must not sell out the individual to cater to the
group. No greater challenge faces our society today than ensuring
that each one of us can maintain his dignity and his identity in
an increasingly complex, centralized society. Extreme taxation,
excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business
... frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the
products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized
bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite. Our party
must be based on the kind of leadership that grows and takes
its strength from the people. Any organization is in actuality
only the lengthened shadow of its members. A political party is
a mechanical structure created to further a cause. The cause,
not the mechanism, brings and holds the members together. And
our cause must be to rediscover, reassert and reapply America's
spiritual heritage to our national affairs. Then with God's help
we shall indeed be as a city upon a hill with the eyes of all
people upon us." --Ronald Reagan