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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (20973)11/4/2013 2:00:06 PM
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I agree with much of what you're saying - I just don't think we're going to get where we want to go with the rhetoric some of these people are using.

<<How can we preach self sufficiency and free market economies when republicans are pushing TARP?>>

That started under Bush and has continued for 5+ years. Jorj - I truly believe we had to do it in 2008. I think if we knew how close to financial collapse we really were when Lehman went down we'd be horrified.

<<Our military was chartered in the constitution to be defensive. How can we refer to things like the federalist papers to justify our interpretation of the constitution when we ignore it for the military>>

Personal view - we (the Republicans) had a free pass in 2001 to respond in whatever way we wanted because the war was on terror. The response was WAY too measured imo. It should have been swift and UFB'ly devastating. We should have vaporized major cities in the middle east - we missed our chance.

<<What the republican party has been doing for the past 50 years has not been working>>

I would contend that at times it has. The economy of the 80's and 90's were because of the Reagan/Bush policies. Whats happened in the past 5 years has set us back 30. What happened in 2001 was a catastrophe - way more than I thought it would be. We're living through an engineered depression. We need a leader with vision that can instill hope - like Reagan did. I really believed Romney had the qualities to do just that...

I'm hoping that we're where the democrats were in 1988....waiting for the rebirth of our party. Who would have ever thought (in '88) that Bill Clinton would become President in '92? We need someone to step forward and take the lead. We need to sell hope to the American people
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