Carley Wrote:
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> Jester - The Republican party has "screwed"
> themselves - McCain did not do it - Palin hasn't
> done it. They are a bunch of Greedy white men
> that can only think about how everything is
> supposed to revolve around them. By not voting
> for the bill today, they have even screwed the
> American people more! Shame on them and on anyone
> that choses to vote for the Republican
> party....The Republican Party lost sight of what
> it was to be a Republican a long time ago! (FYI I
> am a registered Republican)
Me too. Well, since there's no actual "registration", I am a republican because I've voted republican since I was able to vote, up to 2004 when I just chose to stay home, and because I was active in Tom Davis's campaigns.
The problem with the Republican Party is not that Republicans have lost sight of what it is to be a republican, it is because they have allowed the Neoconservatives to take over and drive the party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
"The term neoconservative was originally used as a criticism against liberals who had "moved to the right".[1][2] Michael Harrington, a democratic socialist, coined the usage of neoconservative in a 1973 Dissent magazine article concerning welfare policy.[3] According to E. J. Dionne, the nascent neoconservatives were driven by "the notion that liberalism" had failed and "no longer knew what it was talking about."[4]
The first major neoconservative to embrace the term and considered its founder is Irving Kristol, an American Jew from an orthodox Jewish family,[5] and father of William Kristol who became the founder of the neoconservative Project for the New American Century. Irving Kristol had been an active supporter of Trotskyism, but wrote of his neoconservative views in the 1979 article "Confessions of a True, Self-Confessed 'Neoconservative.'"[1] Kristol's ideas had been influential since the 1950s, when he co-founded and edited Encounter magazine.[6] Another source was Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary magazine from 1960 to 1995. By 1982 Podhoretz was calling himself a neoconservative, in a New York Times Magazine article titled "The Neoconservative Anguish over Reagan's Foreign Policy".[7][8] The Reagan Doctrine was considered anti-Communist and in opposition to Soviet Union global influence and considered central to American foreign policy until the end of the Cold War, shortly before Bill Clinton became president of the United States. Neoconservative influence on American foreign policy later became central with the Bush Doctrine.
Prominent neoconservative periodicals are Commentary and The Weekly Standard. Neoconservatives are associated with foreign policy initiatives of think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), The Heritage Foundation, and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)."