by Peter Brown

Created on: June 11, 2008

The question of whether or not the Republican party will continue is mostly irrelevant. When a party dies, no one will know it for decades. The party might win elections and nominate candidates for years to come, but that doesn't mean it isn't dead. It just means enough people aren't aware of the smell yet.

The Republican party died decades ago, it is currently only running on life support. The real question is, why do we pretend that the GOP of years past is still around today? What are the primary planks of the 'Grand Old Party' platform? Well they are vast. I believe though, that the goal of the party can be summed up easily enough.

Smaller federal government. The notion that government was never intended to stray outside it's initial shape or framework. When a fruit tree is allowed to grow to a point where it cannot support it's branches, those branches begin to break. Because of that, they splinter the trunk, damaging the tree and impede it's production of fruit. When a fruit tree stops producing fruit it becomes null.

When a government grows beyond what it is capable of, it damages those that it was intended to serve. If you believe that 'We The People' are the nation, then you must understand that when we let the government overstep it's bounds it own serves to damage us in turn. A tree that is kept pruned and trimmed, yields fruit thus it serves it's purpose. A government that is continually reminded and confined to its duties, will also better serve its purpose.

The Republican party has lost sight of that goal. It now serves only itself. The party today is not the party of Regan. It's trite to say that, because it has been repeated so often. Additionally Regan wasn't the pinnacle of Republican ideals. What people don't realize is that before Regan was elected, the Republican party had been in a downward spiral for years. Eisenhower did more to advance the welfare state, through the growth of social security and cement the US on the path to socialism, than any Republican had ever done prior. A path that we have not often veered from since.

Now, over fifty years later the federal government, that was originally there to enforce laws and uphold the rights of its citizens and the rights of each State in the Union is responsible for our well being. This is a job that it was never intended to perform. And all the while this derailed federal government is spewing the mantra of 'we have your best interest in mind'.

When you consider that the framers of our Constitution,

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