Quote Of The Day

"We’re three days from the election, but there is already a lot of talk from Republicans about how they can reform their party...Over the last eight years, the Republicans jettisoned their fiscal conservativism by bloating the government with pork and betrayed their small-government libertarianism by enacting a series of privacy-draining, freedom-leeching laws. What they have left is a discredited neo-conservativism foreign policy that’s created more international problems than it’s solved and a strident social conservativism that wrongly seeks to make one denomination of one religion the controlling value system for a diverse nation. And yet, there is nothing like total defeat to inspire new ideas and open conduits for new energies. Look how far the Democrats have come since getting their clocks cleaned from 2000 through 2004. Don’t doubt the Republicans can rebuild just as rapidly – especially if they are willing to welcome all those Americans who may be voting Democratic this election but will be quickly be turned off if the Democrats overreach. In a nation systematically constructed for two party rule, we could really use two viable parties. Hopefully the Republican can reform soon." — Alan Stewart Carl, moderate blogger at Donklephant