The Republicans have released their campaign platform and it sounds like common sense governing.
It calls for returning spending levels to 2008 levels. Don't you miss those Bush deficits now?
Extend the Bush tax cuts to encourage investment and development.
Repeal BO-Care!
The "pledge" deals with immediate issues, specifically the lack of certainty brought about by Pres BO's bashing of businesses.
Did you see Jack Welch's attack on Pres BO? It is right on target:
"President Barack Obama's administration has an "anti-business" bias which manifests itself through intimidation, trade, taxes and regulation..."
Beyond the present, the Republicans need to consider a long term vision or an end to the dependency and entitlement policies that are killing the country.
Professor VD Hanson has a great post: A Nation of Peasants?
"The success of later Western civilization in general, and America in particular, is testament to this legacy of the freedom of the individual in the widest political and economic sense.
We seem to be forgetting that lately -- though Mao Zedong's redistributive failures in China, or present-day bankrupt Greece, should warn us about what happens when government tries to enforce an equality of result rather than of opportunity."
The Republicans, specially in 2012, should run on the message that the US should be a nation of opportunity rather than another European welfare state.
