The Moderate Republican: McCain back to being McCain

What the Moderate Republican Stands For

Republicans came to power as the party of big ideas, and without returning to that model they could be looking at a long winter. Additionally, those big ideas need to focus on Middle America. Three issues that could work are conservation, reform and localism.

Conservation- a return to the Teddy Roosevelt model of conservation. One doesn’t necessarily have to buy into global warming to appreciate the need to protect the natural resources we have.

Reform- the federal government is bigger than ever, and won’t be getting any smaller over the next four years. Republicans need to fashion themselves as national reformers. Much of Middle America wants the government as safety net, but bloated bureaucracies breed corruption that needs to be dealt with.

Localism- this is the lynchpin that brings it all together. If we bought our food locally, shopped locally, governed locally, many of the issue we now have to deal with would go away, or at the least become manageable.

Below is a collection of writers who speak about the things that matter. Some are Right, some Left and some Center, but all intelligent and rational voices.

McCain: RNC's Obama-Blagojevich Focus Not Helpful

December 14, 2008

In an exclusive interview with This Week, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said the Obama transition team should publicly release all information relating to the corruption investigation into Illinois Rod Blagojevich.
"I think that the Obama campaign should and will give all information necessary," McCain told me in his first Sunday interview since the election.

McCain suggested the Republican National Committee's calls for the Obama team to publicly release their conversations with Blagojevich and his people aren't helpful.
"With all due respect to the Republican National Committee, we should try to be working constructively together," McCain said.
"I have some confidence that all of the information will come out. It always does it seems to me," he said.
McCain argued disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich should resign.
"He should," McCain said, "there's a lot of corruption among Republicans and Democrats...I would hope that he resigns. Unfortunately it isn't confined to one city or one state."
--George Stephanopoulos

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McCain back to being McCain

McCain: RNC's Obama-Blagojevich Focus Not Helpful

December 14, 2008

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