Former Senate Leader Bill Frist wrote an op-ed today for CNN that calls on all Republicans “to rally behind this president-elect and openly express support for the call for change throughout our legislative and executive branches.”
Frist looks at this election not as a defeat of conservative principles and ideals, but as an affirmation on how the Senate does business.
He goes one step further by explicitly advocating for a strong central government:
“The American people expect their government to work together to aggressively attack the problems that face us.”
Do we really?
Leslie Carbone doesn’t explicitly call out Frist in her post today, but he is exactly the sort of Republican she’s writing about here:
Since the so-called Progressive Era, and with escalating intensity, the federal government reinforced this toddler-level sense of entitlement.
Yes, as the perpetrators of the New Deal, the Great Society, and so many other outrages, Democrats bear tremendous responsibility for fostering this sense of entitlement. But they don’t know any better.
As they pad behind the Democrats on the road to serfdom, Republicans know better; at least, that’s the conclusion that flows from all the lip service they give individual freedom and responsibility. And so Republican shame for expanding the nanny state is tremendous.
With all due respect to the former Senator, compromise put the Republican Party right back into the minority, and, in the process of compromising, gave us such monstrosities as campaign finance reform, the Patriot Act, the Department of Homeland Security, “No Child Left Behind”, the prescription drug bill, the $700 billion bail-out, and more.
No. No. A thousand times no.
The future of the GOP is not going to be built around being “Democrat-lite”, but by having a robust regard for the Constitution and capitalism; by being conservative.
