Lost Voice of the Republican Party

The Republican Party is in desperate need of a Conservative Voice. They need true leaders to get them back on track and they need to attract younger and more inspired conservatives. Over the past several years they have lost their way and have allowed the party to become fractured. They are lead more by moderates, who while needed within the party, can not be expected to push the conservative views through.

Through the second term of George Bush, the party was allowed to become less conservative and move more to the middle. Face it, George Bush was more of and moderate Republican and he tried to force amnesty and open borders on the country, growing deficits, increasing government, a GOP sponsored takeover of banks. He was a President who refused to defend himself or conservatism publicly. It’s naive to believe that the Republican Party can simply ignore what the base wants on illegal immigration, fiscal conservatism, or the size of government. The party needs to return to it’s conservative roots. Hopefully Michael Steele can help them move in this direction.

The party does not need to fret about Spector leaving the party. He symbolizes more of what is wrong with the party than what is right. He ran on Ronald Reagan’s coattails to get into office, but as time went on he showed more and more of his moderate and more liberal views. If the Republican Party wants to win in the next elections, they need to return to the conservative roots the party was founded on and relate to the conservative base of voters who are searching for a leader.

Ronald Reagan once said in a speech:
....A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.
I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way."

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