Making the Republican Party Grand Again!
How do Republicans start winning elections again? What do we have to do to get our friends and neighbors to enlist in and support a political party that had its modern birth a quarter century ago, in the 1980’s, when we became the voice for Main Street America.It was Ronald Reagan that made our party something greater than a diluted version of the Democrat’s experimental society.It was Reagan that lined Republicans up with the heart and head values of hard working families. He was the one that gave voice to the moms and dads raising kids in a culture of shifting values, and the shopkeepers watching profits get frittered away on government waste and inefficiency. He spoke up for us, and we responded with our votes.But President Reagan is gone, and it seems that so many of the unifying principles that kept Republicans strong and united have left with him. We’ve spent the last decade looking for the “Next Reagan,” someone who would make us proud of our leaders and even prouder of our county. We’ve found some of his courage and strength in President Bush, and our neighbor from the Big Apple, Rudy Giuliani. We’ve found a touch of his humor and commonsense on the airwaves with the emergence of cable news and talk radio. And there’s a whiff of that revolutionary air with conservative campus activists and the brigades of new media bloggers that makes us believe this rudderless drift can be stopped, and the ship righted.The truth is there will never be another Ronald Reagan. It’s now only up to you and me to make the Republican Party stand for something good and yes, grand again. We can’t forever be the politics of nostalgia and hero worship, always looking to what was, instead of meeting 21st Century challenges.More than defeating Barack or Hillary, 2008 is our year to make the Republican Party the home for majority values once again! This election is as a younger Reagan put it most famously in a televised, black-and-white endorsement speech for Barry Goldwater, “A Time for Choosing.” It’s a generational fight to give government back to the people, and protect freedom around the world.If you’ve been skeptical about Republican leadership in Trenton and Washington, and think they’ve fallen off the reservation on taxes and big government one too many times, don’t give up so easily! Do what Reagan, Goldwater and so many other rabble rousers did when the Republican Party needed to find its true voice again – speak out!We need your help, and in 2008, your country needs a reinvigorated Republican Party.
