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...What's Next for the GOP Ramesh Ponnuru makes many valid points in his analysis of the abject failure of the Republican Party in the 2008 elections [Dec. 1]. Yet I would like to suggest an extremely obvious reason: the abysmal record of the Bush Administration. With George W. Bush gone, Republicans will return, after a period of reflection, as a viable force in the U.S. In the meantime, Barack Obama has a great deal of work to do to repair the damage done by our worst President. Bill Gottdenker, Mountainside...
...Ramesh Ponnuru makes many valid points in his analysis of the abject failure of the Republican Party in the 2008 elections [Dec. 1]. Yet I would like to suggest an extremely obvious reason: the abysmal record of the Bush Administration. With George W. Bush gone, Republicans will return, after a period of reflection, as a viable force in the U.S. In the meantime, Barack Obama has a great deal of work to do to repair the damage done by our worst President. Bill Gottdenker, MOUNTAINSIDE...
...Ponnuru suggests that dejected Republicans can revitalize their party by paying attention to the middle class, addressing global warming, making health care affordable and promoting assimilation rather than xenophobia. He proposes, in other words, that Republicans become Democrats or at least move to the center, with an eye toward the 2012 elections. I think the GOP should shoot for 2020. It will take at least that long, probably longer, for Americans to forget the miserable incompetence of the past eight years. Tom Davis, SEATTLE...
...Ponnuru's party has been repudiated because Americans have finally realized that Republicans have long gone out of their way to take money from the poor and give it to the rich through tax breaks, deregulation and Executive Orders. Some Republicans shouldn't be worried about reforming the party; they should be worried about staying out of jail. Guy Falcone, REDWOOD CITY, CALIF...
...Ponnuru's party has been repudiated because Americans have finally realized that Republicans have long gone out of their way to take money from the poor and give it to the rich through tax breaks, deregulation and Executive Orders. Some Republicans shouldn't be worried about reforming the party; they should be worried about staying out of jail. Guy Falcone, REDWOOD CITY, CALIF...