GOP Reform
Gov. Jon Huntsman says his speech next week before the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, will call for party reform.Speaking at KUED's monthly press briefing, Huntsman said he will call on the GOP to return to Lincoln's values, "equality," and Teddy Roosevelt's "respect for the land."
These are core beliefs of the Republican Party that are sometimes lost. I call [Returning to your roots] reform of a sort.Huntsman, an early McCain supporter who is sometimes mentioned as a veep possibility, refused to speculate how he would respond to the offer of a cabinet position or ambassadorship (China!), if McCain is elected.
I don't expect to get the call — that's hyper-hyper-hypothetical.You can watch Huntsman dodge press questions on KUED Friday at 8:30.
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I love how the Republican Party still makes a claim to the legacy of Lincoln. When the Democratic Party took up the issue of Civil Rights after WWII, the "Southern Democrats" began to jump ship and slowly took over the Republican Party. The realignment was solidified with Nixon's "Southern Strategy" which played off the racist fears of Southern whites.
The intellectual forefathers of the modern GOP are not men like Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. The current version of the party is based in the conservatism of the 1950s and 1960s, and is best represented by men such as Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan, and Strom Thurmond, all of whom began their careers as Democrats, but switched to the Republican Party during the Civil Rights Era.
Your party is still on the wrong side of history, Governor Huntsman.
Lincoln was America's most prolific mass murderer ... not exactly a shining example to follow.
And for all of Jon Jr.'s talk of "equality," non-Republican Utahns know how that his administration and his political party's elected officials have failed to keep that promise in Utah.
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