Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Friday, March 06, 2009 1:34:58 AM
"The Republicans are supposed to be the party of ideas. Newt Gingrich came up with the perfect strategy in 1994 with his Contract With America. It listed out ten things that the Republicans promised to work on, and try to get enacted. Since then we have not done anything like that. Because we have lost that model, we have allowed the Democrats to define us; to paint us, in essence, as the party that simply opposes everything they stand for."
The GOP Revitalization
Hardly an easy row to hoe
By Thomas and Marcie Clark
The Republicans have taken it on the chin in the last two elections. The Republican Revolution of 1994 allowed the party a chance to take control of the House for the first time in forty years. In 2002, the party took the Senate, and things went downhill from then on. Republican snubbed their conservative base and spent their way out of power. In 2006 and in 2008 Democrats took back Congress in elections best described as a "shellacking." Since then we have sat back and watched the "woe-is-us" base wonder what went wrong, and how does the party get back in the cat-bird seat. We believe we have the answers, and while it will not be easy, it must be done lest the Democrats end up with decades of control over the Congress, and possibly the Presidency.
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