BLACKWELL: GOP must refocus, rebuild, win

With all do respect, Michelangelo was wrong. He creted and developed the sculptor because he could see it. What is the beauty and the power og GOP beliefs. Optimism and opportunity are not peculiar to the GOP. The GOP has worked against pportunity. The GOP fought Affirmative Action, which it invented, to limit opportunity to Blacks and women. The GOP supported flying the Confedertae flag over state capitals. The GOP proclaim estate taxes as evil. Estate taxes create opprotunity, by not allowing the super rich to stay super rich forever. The GOP treats unions as the enemy, while unions throght collective bargaining have helped make opportunity for many Americans. The country voted for less war, health care for all, and sane regulation. The GOp has been for no to low taxes so it can not see the value of taxes in the society. The GOP sees government as the enemy, except to support a particular morality.

Blackwell, you more than any person in America holds the blame for the reelection of GW Bush in 2004, and all the death, pain, and suffering that has caused. It is only fitting that much of that same pain and suffering is now happening within the GOP. You made that bed, Blackwell. Now lie in it.

"...the Republican Party embraces what the majority of Americans believe, and the Democratic Party opposes those same positions..." Keep on believing that and you'll keep on losing elections.

"On these and many other issues, the Republican Party embraces what the majority of Americans believe, and the Democratic Party opposes those same positions." It would seem Secretary Blackwell that if this were indeed true, the people would have elected John McCain for POTUS.

"America is a center-right country, both economically and socially. The majority of Americans support domestic energy development, low taxes, and allowing people choice in their retirement planning and their children's education. The majority of Americans also support marriage between a man and woman, restrictions on abortion, protecting common religious expressions such as "one nation under God," and Second Amendment freedoms." As long as republicans keep using these straw men to motivate their base and neglect the real problems of this country, they'll keep losing. No one wants to pay taxes, no one, but you can't spend money without making it. That's what's got us into this mess. If you want $700 billion defense budgets, $500 in debt payments because you don't want to raise taxes or cut spending, six year war in Iraq that's cost us $1 trillion and counting, and assorted farm bills, highway bills, etc. that give hundreds of billions to corporations every year, then you have to pay for it somehow, sooner better than later. This is what conservatism has been since 1980. We have borrowed close to $12 trillion now since the adoption of Reaganomics "deficits don't matter" policies with very little to show for it and now we're paying the piper. I don't call this conservative or liberal, I call it insanity.

Dear Kenny, I don't think America is a center-right country, as you bozo Republicans like to say. America is fiscally conservative but socially liberal. Most of America is quite progressive. So get used to being on the outs. You and your party are dead meat for quite some time; and will have to find some new way to loot the treasury. In my humble opinion, the bozos at the top of your party, including Mr. Bush, need to spend some quality time in the slammer, being war criminals. You know, starting an illegal, immoral war for OIL, etc.