Red State Post on the Road we have traveled .....

The following post begs the question.......Who then do we need to bring the Republican Party back from the brink?

A Minority. A Majority. A Minority Once Again. Why?
By Jack Savage

We need to take a look at why Republicans were in the majority in the first place, and why they spent so many years in the minority.

We were in the minority because the party was full of Rockefeller Republicans - moderate to liberal - who were content to take the crumbs handed to them by the Democrat majority and media. For instance, when they spoke out on Nixon, they were lauded as patriots. They retired, gathered their pension, and went on the rubber chicken circuit.

Then along came Reagan, inspired by Goldwater, who bravely articulated the conservative agenda. Ordinary Americans, sick of the weakness of Carter and excesses of Dems, voted for Reagan overwhelmingly. But that was only phase I.

Newt Gingrich took the ball across the goal line with another clear articulation of CONSERVATIVE principles called the Contract With America. The shift in the House and Senate was seismic - but not permanent. The last straw was the Democrat-lite "firewall" strategy of Tom Delay - trying to build a structural majority instead of a principled one.

Rest of the post here.

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