Give Me Back My Party
Great article by Matt Towery
TH-When I started both this column and our now nine-year-old polling and political electronic news firm, I swore off partisan politics. I don’t campaign for candidates and don’t really care who wins any particular race. I have to treat politicians like a proctologist treats, well, nevermind . . .
But my non-partisanship doesn’t keep me from looking at the Republican Party — the one that gave us Ronald Reagan and took over the U.S. House in the 1994 elections — and ask, “Who stole my party?”
I have an answer for you. At one time, the GOP was the party that fought for open government, term limits, reductions in spending and less government intrusion. When I was involved in the Republican Party, we wanted the IRS disbanded and the Department of Education either reduced, made useful, or abolished. We believed in the goodness of an individual and the greatness of individualism.
If you want to know why no one — including my firm — can poll the Iowa caucus with any sense of certainty, it’s because Iowa Republicans are demoralized and unenthusiastic. The two frontrunners are a guy, Mitt Romney, who looks slicker than a television preacher, and another, Mike Huckabee, who really was a preacher but can’t seem to decide how he wants to run his race. It’s a mess.
At one time, the GOP was the party that fought for open government, term limits, reductions in spending and less government intrusion.
I read this sentence and I find my self asking, “Why, on the first day of the most wide open primary in history, is this guy writing about the 1950s GOP?”
Ah yes the good old “slippery slope” republican party of yesterday. Seems they were right all along, and now we see where all those slippery slope laws over the last several decades have led us: right to the doorstep of utter totalitarianism.
Matt Towery is a whiney ass loser.
If Matt Towery thinks government should step in to solve the decline in housing values, redirect money from foreign policy to pay for those who choose to live on the streets and other social programs, then Matt Towery should put a big ‘ol D behind his name, and run for president.
Why the hell would anybody hire Matt Towery’s never accurate firm to do anything for their campaign? What a joke!