Is the Republican Party broken?

Yes

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by Rayne Britt

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I do not know that broken is necessarily the best word to describe the current state of the Republican Party. Cracked? Definitely! With so many moderates coming into both the major parties, the lines have become so blurred that either "choice" is not really much of a choice at all. Demicans and Republicrats are what we have now. (Thank you, Michael Savage.)

We have now pro-choice, anti-gun republicans and pro-life, pro-gun democrats. Of course, a lot of this has to do with trying to please all the people all the time. Many people of both parties will say one thing and then do the complete opposite. It has become increasingly hard for voters to tell where their party stands anymore. It used to be that by voting for the Republicans you were voting for reduced taxes, limited government control, gun ownership for private citizens, pro-life laws and capital punishment. There hasn't been a true Republican since Ronald Reagan and even he pushed the envelope a bit. Now, some Republicans are increasing taxes and voting for stricter gun laws. There aren't many clear dividing lines any more.

The blatant disregard for Constitutional law by both parties is sickening. We haven't seen such abuse and disrespect for the Constitution by a Republican since Abraham Lincoln violated every one of the articles of the Bill of Rights. With Bush, Jr. completely usurping congressional power to declare war (and equally as bad if not worse, their allowing him to do so), the completely unconstitutional Patriot Act and scores of other atrocities, this has been the worst eight years of the Republican Party's history since the 1800's. And the Democrats voted for these things as well so, in the end, they are no better. For the time being, the Constitution is just an invalid document sitting in a museum showing us what we used to believe. Pray your God that these things soon change.

There is still hope for both major parties. With the increasing number of third party voters, the two major parties are going to have to get back to their roots to keep the competition at bay. The Constitution Party is now the third largest political party in America. They are the real conservative party being that they are now what the Republicans were in the seventies and eighties or, more precisely, what the Jeffersonian-styled Democratic-Republica n Party was in the late 17/early 1800's. Maybe as parties such as these continue to grow, the Republicans will see the growing number of conservatives disgusted with the wishy-washy nature of the "new-and-improved" Republicans and they will get their act together in an effort to remain a viable party in the not-too-distant future.

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