Jackson50 on 14 December 2008
I see what Kasz is postulating and it does have some truth to it. If you want to continue to win elections, you must continually bring home the bacon, so to speak, or else you will be defeated. What irritates me most is the Republicans actually had the chance to change this. They could have irreversibly changed government as we know it; however, the Republican leadership in the mid-90s, Dole and Gingrich, was not willing to accept the challenge. The GOP subsequently became a party of pork, reckless spending, and then...interventionist wars; it is why I am still disgruntled with them.
