Our Boulder Liberal friend David writes

But the (principles expressed in the following post about how to save the Republican Party) is not what I see the GOP offering us, either nationally or here in Colorado. DAVID

Bingo David

And that's why we are not winning. Those ideals are not exclusivly one person. It's not "Reagan", it's America.

Reagan just articulated it better than most.

The words and ideas I posted are those that have once, and can again unite the Republican party, and attract dissatisfied patriotic Democrats, and independents like I was first attracted to the party by Reagan as its messenger.

Yes Ronald Reagan was a great genuine person, but it is the ideas and ideals that endure, not just his personality.

Republicans in the 1980's were not flawless, but the principles were, and are enduring.
Are you better off today than you were 2 years ago before the Democrats took control of both houses of Congress?
NO.

The only person or entity that has an approval rating lower than President Bush is the Democrat controlled CONGRESS.

We can take these guys. We have a better message and a better reality.

They want to sell, have to sell, their good intentions, because the record of their programs is costly at best, and counterproductive and actually damaging to American Freedom at worst.

I have NEVER felt my family's or my personal liberty was in jeopardy from the Patriot act. But I darn sure have felt that from the TAX reform acts both enacted and proposed by the Democrat's.

I have never felt the future outlook for my children and grandchildren to grow up in a country of laws and reason was in jeopardy from George W. Bushes picks for the bench, but I sure have felt that from those chosen by Democrats, who as US Supreme court justices in written opinions look to foreign law and foreign courts for guidance on American jurisprudence.

It is not Conservatives who govern as Conservatives I fear, it is Liberals who govern like socialists, and Republicans who govern like Democrats.

NEWSMAN
The Conservative Voice of CD-5.