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.

The American Conservative » Rod Dreher

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Via Meadia

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Front Porch Republic

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David Brooks

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The Soap Box

The Partisan Divide

"The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook."- then candidate Barack Obama, at his convention speech. Now we have this from the Pew Research Center.
Partisan Gap in Obama Job Approval Widest in Modern Era. For all of his hopes about bipartisanship, Barack Obama has the most polarized early job approval ratings of any president in the past four decades. The 61-point partisan gap in opinions about Obama's job performance is the result of a combination of high Democratic ratings for the president -- 88% job approval among Democrats -- and relatively low approval ratings among Republicans (27%).

1 comments:

BB-Idaho said...

27%..odd. The same group shows that people identifying themselves as Republicans is also 27%. One might suppose Rush Limbaugh and that media group tend to rally the conservative types? IMO, Obama
really wanted to unite folks, but
that was pretty naive, considering.
Definitely a trend though. I remember Eisenhower and he had a lot of dem support, although the PEW survey didn't go back that far.

April 6, 2009 6:42 PM

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