Twin Cities: Republican's To Face Double Trouble There Next Year
By J. James Estrada (08/31/07)
The Republican Party will hold its 2008 presidential nominating convention in Minneapolis-St.Paul. This it not new news as the announcement was made last September. What is new is the trouble that awaits them there. After all, a major bridge collapse has raised questions about infrastructure funding and management; and Larry Craig tapping his toe in the Minneapolis Airport bathroom has raised the question of Republican ethics.
Just has holding their nominating convention in New York City prior to the 2004 presidential election seemed to be a public relations coop (a notice that the Republican Party was serious about fighting the terrorists who killed thousands on 9/11), will the Twin City gathering focus on Republican weakness?
Bill Clinton's "bridge to the 21st Century" turned out to be a bridge to nowhere because he made vulnerable these shores to terrorist attack by failing to address the issue in any meaningful way. Which ever Republican candidate is nominated here, should reassure the nation that he will "hold up the bridges" that we care about; namely, security and moral principles. Without both, we are dead in the proverbial water.
J. James Estrada
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