Too Republican?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20080624/cm_huffpost/108825_200806241104

This article caught my attention, and provoked me to write:

Uygur asserts that the Republican Party's problem stems from the fact that Republicans have been too far to the right, hence their unpopularity at this point. He claims we are not a fundamentally center-right country, and that we are not as far-right as the Republican Party has taken us.

This assertion flies directly in the face of the facts. Let's look at some of the things the "far-right" Republican Party has done (or not done) during their majority years in the Bush Administration:

- Did not make the tax cuts permanent
- Did not do anything substantial about border security
- Vastly grew the size of the federal government
- Spent so much we grew a record deficit
- Tried to use pork to secure election victories
- Used ethanhol as a way to harvest votes

These are just a couple of the things the "far-right" Republican Party did during their majority years, and notice not a single one of them is even moderately conservative, let alone "far-right".

Reagan said that "the problem with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so".

I would say that the problem with our Republican Party is not that they're conservative, but that they've done so much that wasn't so.

No political party should be re-elected when they abandon the purposes for which they were elected, and the 2006 Republicans were a prime example of that. Sure there were other factors that were essentially out of their control, but the facts are that Republicans failed in their initial mission.

And that's something Oygur fails to recognize.