The GOP just "ain't" Republican any more

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AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: The GOP just "ain't" Republican any more
Moanin' the Grand Old Party Blues

I've been a registered Republican since the Eisenhower administration --- for those of you too young or too old to recall, that is since the late 1950's --- and yes, I'm old!
The current GOP just "ain't" the same. Over the years it's evolved into something totally different.

The old GOP believed in less government intervention into state affairs and people's lives. Call me a rebel or an independent pioneer or just plain ornery, but I don't want our government to tell us what books we can read, or that our kids need to pray in public school, or that our property can be seized by the government for development purposes.

I'm from "the old school" where if you have damaged your credit and are in debt, you dig down deep and pull yourself out from that debt and get on with your life. To me, a "bail-out" is what you do when your ship is sinking and is NOT a handout from American taxpayers.
Perhaps the GOP needs to make a name change to something more catchy and contemporary in nature to its political platform and philosophy --- say, like maybe the NEO-CONS, which is closer to a NeoConservative Party. After all, when government believes it has a right to tell all of us unequivocally what we can and can't do, that nation goes from a Representative Democratic Republic to a more fascist orientation.

If you don't like that name change idea, how about an exodus by the REAL fiscal and political conservative Republicans within the current GOP to form their own party? They could become the OGOP --- for Older Grand Old Party, which granted may be too redundant on the old slant --- or maybe even the "MCGOP" would be better, for More Conservative GOP.



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