Hi all,
James here again. As we prepare for the 2010 election I look around the Republican table for real national leaders.

So far our team of national leader is the same tired and losing team we have had for the last 4 years. Many are getting to be too old and the new “stars” have been troubled, by affairs and corruption.

Many of these people, Pallin, Romney, Sanford, Ensign believe in many conservative values, but let us remember that failing to live up to conservative principle’s is what got our collective asses kicked.

We failed to be fiscally conservative. We failed to lessen government in our lives. We failed to ensure the government was a neutral observer in our social lives.

The Republican revolution of 1994 lead by Newt was about Less government, and less government interference and therefore less spending, more state control and smaller government for less taxes. It was this class that balanced the budged with a democrat in the White House.

In 2000 Karl Rove took over. He used two presidential elections to push a social based agenda to give the Republicans a stronger majority. We ignored all other “true” conservative values. The result; two wars, a bloated government, that was more invasive, massive debt build up and serious social meddling. The American public gave us the benefit of the doubt in 04, but was fed up by 06. We failed to see the writing on the wall and continued down our, destructive social agenda above all else, path. We were completely trashed in 08.

The reaction to this defeat should be a return to core Republican values. We have a great opportunity, as the Democrats, drunk with power, keep screwing up, to ensure we balance the odds. Most of the time it take 2 election cycles to get back into balance. We have a unique opportunity to become more balanced in 2010 and so far we are blowing it!

We lost because we adopted the wrong strategy. Let us not make that same mistake twice. The principle of limited government interference does not blend well with demands from the left and right for major government interference on only a few issues, weather it is stem cell research or health care. Both are massive invasions of personal issues by the federal government.

And this kind of federal meddling is what make most Americans frustrated with government.

Everyone deserve a seat at the table and everyone’s opinions matter. We must stop ignoring those with somewhat different opinions in our party if we are to remain relevant in the next 100 years. I personally do not want to wait for Democrats to screw up to have more say in the federal government.

If they had played their cards right, they could have sidelined our party for a very long time after the complete failure for us to live up to our own values.

The time has come to get together and start listening to each other; to stop dictating to the majority. The jockeying for position among the most right wing of our party is such a mistake. The record speaks for itself on these issues. Those that only hold up their social record, fail! We have to have real leadership and come up with real alternatives to what is being done in Washington. We must stop being the party of “no” and become the party of ideas.

After failing to live up to our own standards it will take a while for the majority of Americans to trust us again. We must work extra hard and hope the Democrats keep tackling too much for us to regain the public trust.