Restoring the Reagan Revolution
By J. James Estrada (11/09/06)
The mid-term elections are in the past and the prospects for 2008 loom. The door to the Republican presidential nomination is swinging open for some and has closed suddenly on a few. Among the latter are George Allen and Rick Santorum. For the former, it is widely believed that John McCain is the frontrunner. Not really.
McCain is still McCain. That is, the ultimate RINO; the champion of Chris Matthews and most the liberal media. He’s their champion only because he breaks with Reagan’s 11th Commandant: “Thou shall not speak ill of a fellow Republican,” on a regular basis. McCain did not vote for the initial tax cuts that Bush proposed to take this country out of the Clinton recession. He did not vote for the repeal of the estate tax. He did not vote for drilling in ANWR. The fact is, prior to 9/11, McCain was headed for a recall here in Arizona.
On the horizon of a new morning in America, 2008 edition, is a handful of Republicans who may be able to restore the fading Reagan Revolution. Newt Gingrich. Mitt Romney. Condi Rice. Gingrich is in the mix because his own “mid-term failure” is several years removed. His problem is that he thought he needed to make nice with Hillary Clinton to remove the stigma attached to him by leftists across the media during his time as Speaker of the House. There is no doubt that the Contract with America was a brilliant stroke that only now, 12 years later, has been sidetracked by a leaderless Republican Congress.
Romney is thought to be outside the evangelical, religious-right sphere within the Party because he is a Mormon. Despite what Ralph Peters suggests in the New York Post today, the religious-right has not suffered that much from the results of Tuesday’s election. While there were some set-backs, it only makes the resolve of Christian conservatives that much stronger going forward. Unlike non-believers, believers actually do “believe” and gain much hope through prayer and Biblical inspiration. As for Romney, other Mormons in the Party have served the faithful well; see Orin Hatch.
Rice is the frontrunner for those of us who still see an enemy in the Islamo-fascist world that wants very much to kill us. Currently, Iraq is the frontline on the war against this real danger. Someone like Rice knows full well that the battle will go for many more years, even when Iraq is finally tamed, or, at least, neutralized. With her extensive background in understanding that a seemingly irrepressible threat (namely the Soviet Union) can be suppressed indeed, makes her a natural in the search for another Reagan.
J. James Estrada
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