New face of the GOP

The key to a new and refresed GOP needs to be based in conservative-libertarian beliefs.  The new young face of the GOP will:

1.Be against high taxes, especially income, property, capital gains, and estate taxes.  Not because we hate poor people, or want children to die in the streets for lack of healthcare.  We want to avoid confiscatory taxes because we believe the government essentially wastes money.  We know what the government is gauranteed to deliver, a project that turns out to cost a lot more and take much longer than predicted.

2. We disagree with abortion because we think life is precious.  However we wouldnt advocate banning abortion or jailing doctors of young women who had them.  We simply dont want policy on this subject, or any subject for that matter, dictated from DC.  Lets face it in todays America that most restrictive states at most would ban abortion in all cases except those or rape incest and in the case where the mother is in danger.  And states like that would be the exception, most would simply install common sense laws such as parental notification, bans on atrocious partial birth abotion, and maybe waiting periods.  The main point however is that the people of the states get to decide, not beaucrats in washington, not 9 men in black robes, the people. 

3.  We want to have a strong national defense but we abhour wars that kill young american men and women and kill innocent civilians in the countries where we fight.  If we were more energy indepdent at home, we wouldnt need to ensure the stability of the middle east as much as we do now.  While we would want to ensure that the region didnt become a safe haven for extremism, we would not need to ensure that conditions existed for a consistent supply of oil.  By drilling with environmentally responsilble techniques, researching shale oil extraction technology, taking more advantage of offshore drilling, tap the vast wasteland that is ANWR, and finally go full steam ahead with nuclear power plants.  Replace all domestic electricity with nuclear energy and use fossil fuels for everything else, this would be a great goal. 

4. We dont hate the earth.  The "right" has constantly been smeared as anti environment, as a party that puts large corporate interests ahead of fresh air and clean water.  Bull.  Just because we think Al Gore is snake oil salesmen doesnt mean we want to condemn our children to live in an ozoneless wasteland.  We understand the scientific method and how it works, and therefore that there is ZERO PROOF that global warming is manmade.  We shouldnt condemn ourselves to sky high electric bills and gas prices in an attempt to ween ourselves off of fossil fuels.  See point three above for energy independence plan.

5.  This of course is simply the ranting of one person who supports the GOP.  I dont support them because I think they are right all of the time or even most of the time.  I support them because they are the party that in the past has shown themselves to be able to put into action conservative small goverment policies.  It is the party of Barry Goldwater, Ronald Regan, William F. Buckley, and many other greats.  We are taking very large steps toward socialism.  Things are going to get worse, but remember its always darkest before the dawn.  People say that out of Obama there will be the next Reagan.  I think this optimism is good, however I would prefer to think that out of Obama there will be a president who can accomplish some real change.  Abolish the Department of Education, disban the IRS, permanently ban bans on domestic drilling, return america to a responsible financial policies.  After an Obama administration there will be much opprotunity for the GOP, a new more in touch, invigorated base must be ready to charge ahead with bold new ideas.