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Joan Ganz Cooney | 05/12/2009 11:00 pm

Joan Ganz Cooney: The Republicans Have Nine Lives

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In response to: What might the loss of our tradition of bipartisanism mean for the country?
Joan Ganz Cooney
Not so fast. I don’t think the Republican Party is about to disappear. Everyone seems to forget that after Barry Goldwater lost nearly every state in the union in 1964, the Republican Party came roaring back with none other than Richard Nixon. Then after Watergate and all the obituaries for the Republican Party and the one term of Carter, Reagan came in for eight years, followed by four more with George H.W. Bush. I don’t ever count those guys out. This country has never been particularly bipartisan but I believe we’ll always have at least two parties.
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Laura Ward

But there wasn’t a war then and the economy wasn’t in shambles. We can’t blame the Republicans for the economy. Unfortunately, that began during Clinton with easy credit for all. And the Democrats voted for the war almost as much as the Republicans. What a mess we’re in! Both parties are at fault.

Sure don’t know what the answer is. I would like a new party if bipartisanism is no longer possible. But even that will take great effort. Ron Paul and Ralph Nadar have some support, but not enough.

By Laura Ward on 05/13/2009 2:53 am
Laura Ward
Correct that…after Goldwater and during Nixon, of course we had the Vietnam war.
By Laura Ward on 05/13/2009 2:59 am
Laura Ward
Actually, it appears before Nixon, Lyndon Johnson (Democrat) entered the U.S. into the Vietnam War and the Democratic Congress forced Gerald Ford (Republican), after Nixon’s resignation to end the Vietnam War by cutting the budget from $1 billion to $700 million. And then after we withdrew from Vietnam completely, all kinds of awful things happened to South Vietnam after we had promised to help them two years earlier. Sounds like we could repeat ourselves today with Iraq.
By Laura Ward on 05/13/2009 3:21 am
Gary Jackson

Actually, it goes all the way back to Jimmy Carter, and the "Community Re-Investment Act."  While home ownership for everyone is a noble idea, you simply can’t loan money to dead beats. I know it sounds "racist" but there is a reason why banks "redlined" certain areas. 

All that needs to happen, is for the GOP to tell the "moderates", who are trying to out-democrat  the democrats, the"democrat lite" RINOs to sit down, shut up, or go away. We must get back to sold conservative, and Constitutional principals. America is still very much a center-right nation. 

But when you have a communist like Barack Obama running on conservative ideas, just to get elected, of course, he meant none of it, and getting away with it, you know your party is in trouble. 

We need real leaders to step forward. They are out there. There’s Sarah Palin, of course, and she’ll be our next President. But she can’t do it alone. We need the younger guys like Mike Pence to step up, and even the middle age fellows like John Carter to step up to a larger leadership role. We have other true conservatives, and it’s their time,for sure.

By Gary Jackson on 05/14/2009 1:28 am
Beth Cornell
Good point Laura on your last post. Joan Cooney, You have also a good point.
By Beth Cornell on 05/13/2009 10:25 am
Dede Brannon
The Republican Party is far from being dead.  After two years of Obamarama, the Republicans will make gains in 2010, and certainly after four years of Mr. I Don’t Use Good Judgement, the Republicans will come roaring back in 2012. 
By Dede Brannon on 05/14/2009 6:28 am