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From: i-node	11/7/2012 3:04:47 PM
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I'm not quite sure who said it but they were right: You can't undertake to educate the voters on fiscal responsibility during the election season. If the GOP wants to have a position in the next election, they're going to have to radically alter the strategy and some "core" beliefs that are outdated and make no sense: a) Start today, not two years from now, with a serious effort to educate voters about the fiscal issues. This includes addressing the complicated accounting issues surrounding SS and Medicare which keep the voters from understanding why these programs are financially untenable. b) Get off the social issues and moralizing. Abortion is here to stay and it is none of the government's business. Same sex marriage is none of the government's business. Deal with it. c) End the war on drugs which is costing the country countless lives and $100 Billion a year or more, and corrupting our law enforcement and therefore public confidence in it. d) Make a decision about how we're going to address the health care crisis and pursue it. Obamacare is the law of the land but need not be the end of the line. e) Get off the idiotic idea that all military spending is off the table. Every person I know of who ever served in the military recognizes it is a ridiculous bureaucracy with insane levels of waste. The military can be effective while reducing its budget. f) Oppose new taxes but express a willingness to pay higher taxes to reduce debt once the budget has been balanced or put on a confident trajectory to being balanced. g) Expressly leave religion out of it. When a GOP candidate is asked about religion the answer is, "Every person in this country is entitled to practice his or her own religion in privacy, whatever it is, and I choose to keep my religion to myself and not use it for political purposes." h) Leave people alone. These principles are the keys to success.

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