May 21, 2008

Dissapointing election year.

I have a vague hope that McCain will recruit a conservative as VP. Someone who might hold the values Expressed below:

"We, the members of the New Republican Party, believe that the preservation and enhancement of the values that strengthen and protect individual freedom, family life, communities and neighborhoods and the liberty of our beloved nation should be at the heart of any legislative or political program presented to the American people."

"Our task now is not to sell a philosophy, but to make the majority of Americans, who already share that philosophy, see that modern conservatism offers them a political home. ... The job is ours and the job must be done. If not by us, who? If not now, when? "

"Our party must be the party of the individual. It must not sell out the individual to cater to the group. No greater challenge faces our society today than ensuring that each one of us can maintain his dignity and his identity in an increasingly complex, centralized society."

"Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business … frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite. Our party must be based on the kind of leadership that grows and takes its strength from the people. Any organization is in actuality only the lengthened shadow of its members. A political party is a mechanical structure created to further a cause. The cause, not the mechanism, brings and holds the members together. And our cause must be to rediscover, reassert and reapply America's spiritual heritage to our national affairs. Then with God's help we shall indeed be as a city upon a hill with the eyes of all people upon us."

-Ronald Wilson Reagan

3 comments:

Renee' B. said...

This guy sounds kind of like an ubber-christian.....dang republicans.....

keeka said...

Lee, Amen to your post!!! I am praying for the same thing!

flyingvan said...

I'm sort of hoping McCain has been cleverly saying/doing all the things he needed to appeal to enough of the public to get elected even with the blame the conservatives sentiment. You never know really what you get until they are in office and represent the whole nation instead of just their party.