GOPideas... ideas done right

The mission of GOPIdeas is to push Republicans into debates and discussions on two fronts. The first is to provide specific ideas that Republicans can propose while in the minority that would provide both a positive vision for the future and a contrast with Democratic initiatives. The more difficult issue to address is to create a principled decision-making framework into which Republican idea can fit. One of the major challenges is highlighted by Newt Gingrich --- the Republicans sold out their principles from 2000-2006 and could not make a believable case that they were the party of small, efficient government hemmed in by spending discipline. More importantly, he puts his finger on the key to the Republican revival --- the discussion of positive ideas to make America stronger that is intellectually and morally superior than that of the Democratic Party.

As we can see Newt was even more on target a year later when he stated that Republican politicians do not like to think. Before the 2008 election I would have disagreed --- but after being confronted with a blizzard of proposals by team Obama, the Republicans still have failed to formulate policy alternatives leads to no conclusion other than that Republicans are out of ideas.

This is a tradgedy on many levels, the most important of which is that the public is being deprived of a plausible opposition strategy during a time in which decisions are being made that will affect generations to come --- and are likely irreversable.

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