Would it be wise for the Republican party to return to its moderate center?

Question

If so, who would be good candidates that should consider running (can be local, state, & federal offices).

Answer 1

I think BOTH parties should move to the center. This would put them in line with the beliefs of most Americans.

Answer 2

No, but it would be wise for them all to go lay down somewhere and take a nice long nap while we clean up their nasty mess. Right now the best description for their approach to politics would be incompetent and felonious. Republican dirty tricks are alive and well. They need to try to actually get a President elected for once instead of relying on disinformation, trashing honorable service men and women, and outright lies in order to get elected.

Florida is the worst example of this blight. Florida's right to vote as an entire state should be cancelled. In fact, I think we should dig a big trench along the Florida border (and give the dirt taken out to New Orleans to help fill in the lowlands), then get about fifty thousand foundation jacks and push that puppy off..... then its Adios to all the child molesters, abortion bombers, serial killers, etc. who seem to thrive in Florida like nowhere else. That is who decided that the *decider* (rofl!) should still be our President. Its a hundread and fifty years late, but I vote for Florida's secession from the Union whether they want to go or not!

So there is no such thing as a moderate Republican any more. It is impossible since the entire political orientation of the party has shifted drastically under the incompetence of Dubya. Having forever altered the definition of politically moderate by shoving it forty-eleven miles to the right, howling at the moon is now acceptable at mainstream Republican events, primaries, and conventions.

Just one thing I wanna know... where in the Holy Hell did they get Log Cabin Republicans? Or African American republicans? It just goes to show you how easy it is to con Americans into voting against their own best interests. But in the post 9/11 hysteria and leadership vaccum, those who were donwtrodden and outcast inexplicably and blindly supported the very despicable people who would beath them down, refuse their children a decent education, and then warehouse them in our enormous criminal justice system serving mandatory sentences many times longer than fits the crime.

John Ashcroft and his succeding stream of environmental criminals and born again disciples think that what they consider moral should be the law of the land, and your personal law as well, and you had better be living that way.

At this point, the Republicans have drifted so far right that its credibility is toast, and its newly located ultra-right wing center will take years to drift back into anything than resembles honest American values or moderation.

Answer 3

I think the Republicans are already a centrist party. Of course, the Democrats are too.

We all get caught up with the rhetoric between the ultra-leftists and the ultra-rightists, but when it really comes down to it, we are a nation of moderates, and neither party can really achieve the extreme measures they like to talk about.

Both parties rely on a loyal base of voters who will always vote the party line. They use their tough talk to pander to the more extreme elements in their parties and make them believe that they agree with them. Ultimately, those in power steer to the center, because that is what we want, and they know we will throw them out if they don't.

If you find a candidate for any office whose track record is extreme (either direction), vote against them, and you'll likely elect a centrist.

Answer 4

Unfortunately, I don't think the Republicans will try & move to the center. McCain would be a wise choice, but since he'll appeal to the Independents & some Democrats, they won't vote for him.

Probably the same case with my party, the Democrats. We'll put up someone way to the left. It'll just be another grossly partisen race...again.

Answer 5

I think that McCain would be a wise choice for the Republicans, even I would not have a problem with that. McCain has a proven track record, and seems to appeal to everyone.

Answer 6

i had to ask an identical question!! even even though it won't take place Christian Conservatives seem to love the gayer Republican occasion... with leaders which includes Mary Cheney + others...... they prefer to wave the U. S. flags to help remote places owned companies, too amen

Answer 7

The dems and REPS have screwed America 10,000 ways for decades. This gov is just one giant fiasco of rampent mismanagement at every level in every office. Think I'm wrong?


The Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person.

In 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments.

Alaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production.
Hoover Institution
Kuwait:
Democracy, Kuwait Style
Peter Berkowitz
It’s not that the woman question was the only issue faced by voters. From the owner and editor in chief of Kuwait’s largest newspaper, to the chief executive officer of Kuwait Petroleum Company, to the former Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States, our interlocutors argued that the Kuwaiti economy is stagnating and that the remedy is privatization. This is a difficult proposition, however, in a country where 90 to 95 percent of the labor force is employed by the government, which generally pays more than the private sector. And designing institutions to create the right incentives will be difficult in a country whose oil wealth supports a massive welfare state with no taxes that generously funds its citizens’ health, education, and housing needs.
Pollution free electric power has been all over DC. Clinton, Gore, Newt, Sam Nun, DOE, and many other you wouldn’t know.

Clinton “was too busy moving the country forward”
Gore said “I wish you good luck, I’m glad to see other’s are working on our energy problem”
Newt “promised his full support” To sell to Ga. Power for a .01c on the dollar to invent and patent this tech
I have letters from these crumbs saying this!
Sam was to busy with Armed Services he just brushed me off real fast!
Mason Wiggins aide to Congressman Walker of the Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee said “ this appears to be the secret we’ve been looking for” he took it to friends in the DOE. DOE management found it had come in the back door and threw 100% clean electric power 1000 times more electric power than the largest Nuclear plant.
The Bush administration has refuse all attempts at communication. They have returned no calls and answered no emails.

I told everyone in the government that when the US was supplied to overabundance. The power plants would be built to supply the world and when all the power bills came back to the US. I wanted to take 1/3 of the profit divide it and pay every US citizen what I call a National Income Program. When working at capacity this could be $50,000 dollars per year for every US citizen.

If Alaska pays
Kuwait pays even it’s indirectly after the gulf war losses
Dubai pays
I’ve read Norway does something like this
I’ve read Nigeria is working on a fund to pay the people also

Oil is just 1 of thousands of commodities.

With all the commodities in your state.

Why can’t your state pay you?

With the resources the feds can’t they pay 50 times what Alaska pays?

The dems and reps have all the power and all the control.
Shouldn’t they bear all the responsibility for their mismanagement?

It is time to take America back for the people.

VOTE! Vote for anyone as long as they’re not a democrat or republican!

If our founding father were alive today.
They would lay siege to DC tar and feather ALL the officials.
Then hang them on the steps for all to see the consequences of screwing Americans!!

If we continue to ask for truth, then refuse to listen.
Mankind will forever, be doomed to destruction.

There must be security for all, or none are secure!
This requires losing no freedoms, only to act responsibly!

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