By Lynn Woolley
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas Now what?
The Republican Party has entered into a period of brooding. And just as the nation is divided the Grand Ole Party is splitting into two camps.
On the one side Republicans who put the biggest premium on securing elected office are demanding a retooling. They say the Party must embrace some form of amnesty
to please Hispanics and change attitudes on abortion
to please women.
On the other side are the hard-core conservatives who blame Romneys lackluster performance heading up to the finish line. They point out that Moderate Mitt got fewer votes than did John McCain.
As it turned out President Obama excited his base over free contraceptives for women and taxing the rich but Mitt could not create any passion within his own base.
Both sides have a point. The question is whether an alliance can be formed within the Republican Party between the so-called establishment wing and the Tea Party wing.
We have to try or we have to depend on a massive Obama failure in the second term. That may happen but being proactive always works better.
To begin with all Republicans must agree to a certain baseline of values.
- If high taxes and bloated government was wrong before the election its wrong after it.
- If killing unborn babies in the womb was wrong then its wrong now.
- If same-sex marriage was detrimental to the traditional family the bedrock of our society it still is.
These core values are what has separated Republicans from Democrats. If we abandon them we are no different no better than they are.
Then where is the compromise possible?
If as we are told the changing demographics are destroying our political movement and if these core values must be preserved then we can tinker around the edges. But our mission and our vision must be to convert Hispanics and other interest groups to conservatism. Failing that we are destined to become
a soft dictatorship and welfare state in the mold of Greece and France.
We are only a few years behind them and the economic trends are taking us in that direction.
We might compromise
on immigration. We could take a page from Governor Rick Perrys book bite our lips and agree to some type of path to citizenship for those young people whose parents drug them into the country when they were infants or toddlers. This would prove we have hearts.
On abortion compromise is tougher because of the moral issue. But rape incest and the life (not health) of the mother might be a place to draw the line if we could get certain safeguards. Then wed look more reasonable."
Beyond that we will have to find a way to reform
our welfare system address the debt and do something anything about the tax code. The Democrats are just plain wrong on these issues as Obamas policies have proven.
Since the country reelected him anyway weve got to educate educate educate.
Our way is the way to prosperity and growth; theirs is the road to destruction. Why cant we explain that? Why did Romney not communicate that better? The time for being timid is over.
The time for the old guard in the GOP is also over. Our next nominee will be one of the new breed Ryan Rubio Jindal or someone like them. If the Democrats stick with older faces like Biden or Hillary
Clinton the Republicans will actually seem more in touch.
All we have to do is believe in our own values and tell the country why they are better. Not just for some of us but for all of us.
Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based talk show host. Contact him at www.BeLogical.com.
