Fascinating bit of news from Politico:
…Several Senate Republicans told POLITICO that they don’t favor privatizing Social Security, as Angle has supported. Small government conservatives said it doesn’t make sense to eliminate the Energy and Education departments – as she’s called for in the past. And some recoiled at the thought of pulling the United States out of the United Nations, a position Angle has touted.
“They were suggested about 18 years ago, and many times subsequently,” said Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) who disagreed with all of those views. “Some candidates from time to time, perhaps attempting to show a sense of anger, outrage or whatever, express what I would characterize as very extreme views that do not have much basis in either practicality or what is going to occur in the evolution of our country.”…
So says the hack’s hack, Richard Lugar – Lugar is just what has been wrong with the Republican party. It is because of people like him that we’re still stuck the white elephants like the Department of Energy – why we’re still fooling around with a hopelessly corrupt and anti-American United Nations. Why we’re nearly bankrupt – because Republicans like Lugar would never allow the conservative, populist base of the GOP to have it’s way.
Well, in Sharron Angle, that base is demanding a say – and it scares the bejabbers out of the political class. More so in the Democrat ranks, to be sure, but never let it be said that our Republican party wasn’t infected with the Establishment Disease.
We’ve been too timid – we need to get Angle in to the Senate just to impart some back bone in to the Senate GOP. It is time to run through the whole government and swing the axe quite mercilessly. How else are we going to balance the budget? Cross our fingers and hope that the Money Fairy comes through for us? I don’t think so.
Additionally, I think that while the DC GOP has started to move a bit towards the people (and more so in the House than in the Senate), they are still a bit out of touch in there. With millions of gallons of oil spewing in to the Gulf and the entire United States government proving itself incompetent to stop it, now is the time to make the case for eliminating whole departments of government.
We can win – we have shown that no issue is a “third rail”. President Bush won in 2004 while campaigning on privatizing Social Security. The establishment thought we had to get behind ObamaCare or become unpopular. The establishment was scared to death of Arizona’s border security law. The establishment figured that a softening of the conservative message would work best in places like New Jersey.
Screw the establishment – we’re sending Sharron Angle and others like her to DC; and we’re going to demand smaller government, not just boilerplate, conservative speeches. It is time for a change – real change.
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