Update - It's the Ideas, Silly

Another news story tells us that

" ...Megan McCain, (daughter of John McCain) isn't too fond of Joe the Plumber. "He should stick to plumbing," she said. Meghan McCain has always done her best to prove that, sometimes, the apple does fall far from the tree. And now, she’s at it again. During a recent interview with Out Magazine, the 24-year-old Republican openly dismissed the importance of Joe the Plumber, the everyman character on which her father John McCain’s campaign hinged."Joe the Plumber -- you can quote me -- is a dumbass. He should stick to plumbing," she said. The young political powerhouse remains focused on revitalizing the GOP and proudly voicing her belief on gay marriage.

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Yeah, well, good luck with that! Just another example of someone who just doesn't get it. Joe the Plumber may be a fool, or may not be. But it's the IDEA embodied in his conversation with Obama that resonates with conservatives. So does gay marriage. So let's see how many people she draws to a speech as she "revitalizes" the party, compared to Palin.

As for the gay marriage thing and the syntactical aberration that such a word combination is, Seneca has ridden that pony here.

As for revitalizing the GOP, she is doing nothing but trying to further its march to toward the liberal left, indeed THAT is the reason why the GOP is losing ground - because they, for years, starting with George Bush I, have tried to win votes by presenting themselves, not as Republicans but as a different version of Democrats! Thank you very much, my good sir, but if I have a choice of voting for a 1/2 Democrat and the real thing, I will vote for the Democrat.. vote for someone else ... or sit out completely. Sheeesh, did they [the GOP] not learn anything when Perot kept the Bush I from a 2d term?


By the way , Seneca tells me that if the GOP wants to "revitalize" the party here is the beginning of the platform that it should take:


Creed of the New Republicans
What's mine is Mine; What's yours is Yours ...and, most important of all ... What's Mine is Not Yours - regardless of how much better a place/use you think you can find for my money than I can, and regardless of how "in need" you think you are, or how "in need" you think somebody else is.

We the members of the New Republican Party understand that the way for a person to fight poverty is to WORK; understand that the role of government is not compassion, further understand that the that "I", depends on "ME", not other people;
and are disgusted with the entitlement society that has grown like a cancer through America. By entitlement we mean not only the personal entitlement but the corporate entitlement that has infected the country over the last 50 years. We also have the view that NOBODY is entitled to my property - nor am I entitled to theirs and that using the power of the government to rob me of mine so as to give to another is a moral crime.


~Cato