Reply #7: Screw that... W DOES have the GOP's ideals [View All]

[Salviati]

at least the ideals that they govern with, which are markedly different than those that they campaign with. Bush is not the problem, he is merely a symptom of the failure of conservative ideals. Any republican presidential nominee who would have gotten the support of todays GOP would have been just as bad as bush.

Granted, they may not have had the same difficulty putting together coherent sentances, resisting the urge to grope world leaders, and other examples of general dumbassery, but I guarintee you, we'd still be stuck in a quagmire in Iraq, Katrina would have still been a disaster, the deficit would still be at stratospheric levels, and the power would still be out in New York. These are all the invevitable result of electing to power people who don't belive that the government can have a role in improving the life of the general person, and who belive that what little (but expensive) government there is should be treated like a cash cow...

The problem is more than just one man, it's the whole culture that has developed over the last few decades in the GOP party, and it will continue to be a problem until the party is punished so harshly in the elections over such a long period of time, that they have no recourse but to reform themselves in order to start winning elections again. Until they start losing elections as a party, they've got no motivation to change.