Republicans need to address divisions
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Editor,
This is not the first time this subject has come up and probably will not be the last.
This is a warning to the Republican party. And I realize that many will think my comments simply partisan and aimed at bolstering the Democratic party. This is not true. In fact, it is just the opposite.
Having grown up in a politically Republican leaning environment, but also in a family environment which taught fairness, compromise, peaceful resolutions to problems, and group consensus in order to achieve goals, I must say this to those who presently support the Republican party at all costs: Unless your beloved party gets its act together and somehow finds a way to resolve issues within the party, begins to show cohesion, clarity, consensus, and compromise, your party is doomed to years of defeats in elections by the American public.
Wake up. Look around you. See the demographic changes just in the last 20 years. The Republicans, at present, are a party of both the “old” (ultra conservative) and the “new” (popular and sensible conservatives). See your divisions. Address them. Throw out the “old” and welcome the “new.” This is your only hope.
And you know what? If you of the Republican party actually do this, our nation as a basic two party democracy will be much stronger, more dynamic, better able to govern this great nation, and will help restore America to being one of the great world leader nations.
At present we are dead in the water. We are being laughed at, or worse, ignored abroad. The only thing that saves us abroad is our willingness to throw money around. This may have to end. And at home we continue battling ourselves instead of the sources of our problems.
Wake up Americans, I say. Speak out — not from partisan politics, but from good sense.
Bob McClellan
Polson
