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Republicans Need a Contract With America
The poll gap is enormous (13+ points R!). There are lots of reasons to not vote for Democrats.
But Republicans who want to be in the House and Senate need a simple, straightforward platform that Americans can vote for. Here is a list to kick off the discussion:
1. Don’t have more COVID lockdowns or mandates of any kind.
2. Maximize natural gas, oil, and nuclear power sources to lower the price at the pump and utility bills.
3. Support parental rights! Change the law to have the money only go to states and jurisdictions where parents have choice/charters/vouchers.
4. Send all departments out to the areas they govern. Drain the swamp by exporting it.
5. Change the law to fire all government employees who play politics or political favorites. No selective enforcement/targeting.
6. Support medical freedoms. No FDA approval should be needed for people to make their own decisions on experimental drugs.
7. Reduce governmental ownership of land. Mandate a max 10% federal ownership of the land of any state. Auction the rest off over the course of four years.
8. Finish the border wall.
Criticize! Add your own! Let’s see if we produce a decent Top 10 priorities list Republicans can rally around and implement.
Published in General
Mr. Newt was on FNC last night (IIRC Laura Ingraham’s show) and he and the host discussed him being chartered by a group of GOP leaders to produce a Charter with America for the 2022 cycle. He specifically mentioned school choice and a couple of other issues as ones that would definitely make the cut. I suspect the rest of his recommendations will center around addressing the items in this list, to the greatest possible extent: https://www.gingrich360.com/2022/01/12/america-needs-an-honest-adult-conversation.
Thinking about it, Newt’s suggestions are things the Republicans seriously need to do should they win 2022, but they don’t need to be added to the contract.
It might depend on how one was affected by 2020’s “year of riots.” Contrary to what you say above, such a promise might bring in urban-dwellers who are traditionally Democrat constituents. If you watched your business, your neighborhood, your city burn while Democrats encouraged more burning, you might be willing to throw them over.
The title sort of put me off; the GOP “going bold”? That’s something I dare not wish for. No sense in being disappointed again.
I like this one a lot!
I’ve commented on this stuff before- for what it’s worth:
1- repeal 17th amendment to give power back to states.
2- ban all federal and state unions.
3- balanced budget amendment indexed to income from prior year
4- flat tax rate
5- reduce the power of President executive orders
6- eliminate several departments (education)
7- ban crt in public schools
Oh yeah that reminds me:
Replace payroll tax and income tax (including estate tax) with sales tax and tarriffs.
“We are for [insert a phrase from the Constitution]. Our opponents want to take that away.”
The people who will profit the most from such sales will be the swampy insiders. There are several thousand Hunter Bidens floating around.
The campaign point might be to say the Federal government will not interfere with states who want strong and effective election integrity laws, for example, voter ID.
We do not want Federal Employees sent out to States. We need them fired. We existed for most of our history on a tiny Federal government and that worked just fine. They cannot govern from Washington but we don’t need them in the States. The Forest Service and the Bureau of Land management who are out in the field because huge chunks of Federal land were acquired before there were rapid communications and travel and they did a good job, had good relationships with cattlemen and loggers, but that is changing as Washington takes over. Figure out what to do with the BLM, the Forest Service and the Park Service. The rest should have to prove there is a reason for their existence. Let’s remember we moved the functions to Washington because states were corrupt and inept at regulating things they should not have regulated in the first place. There are things that are national, not many, borders and foreign policy and some giant environmental issues. Moreover states are bureaucratic and corrupt and should also be cut back radically. We need clear laws and fewer and very defined regulations, not bureaucrats anywhere. Let’s understand why every country that ever existed died by centralizing power. No exceptions. We were unique. Let’s not forget that. There is no magical centralized solution, just vast complications that are easily corrupted.
This seems like an overly simplistic analysis.
As a sports analogy, prevent defense actually works sometimes.
In politics, it looks like it worked for the Dems in the 2020 election.
So the strategy is to precipitate an open civil war in the Republican Party, by demanding that candidates reject the top two elected Republican leaders in the federal government? Do you really think that this is going to bring about an electoral victory for the Republicans?