The Right Stuff

In re: to the debate on what now ought to happen in the GOP, check out Victor Davis Hanson's Corner post on the conservative principles that ought to be embraced and communicated going into November - and in my opinion, Forevermore. Gingrich was saying much the same this morning in his Human Events op-ed.

The GOP needs to dig in and stop the slide towards the Center, which every Republican president since Reagan has contributed to in his own special way. As Hanson rightly says, we ought to frame and present conservative principles in a more articulate way rather than cater to the perceived advantages of straddling the fence. We need a smarter, more pragmatic energy policy; a curbing or elimination of taxes of all kinds; strict fiscal discipline; constitutionalist federal judges; secure and/or closed borders; a careful and principled approach to national security and military efforts around the globe; and a strong commitment to ethics and transparency in all governmental corners. We should also eliminate the Dept of Education and leave it to the states, who ought to offer/allow quality public and private education according the demands of its residents.