Back when we still had a pair - and owned up to it
None of this
pussified male crap here.
Back in 1956, this was the
Republican Party's Platform:
Republican Party Platform of 1956
Declaration of Faith
America's trust is in the merciful providence of God, in whose image every man is created ... the source of every man's dignity and freedom.
In this trust our Republic was founded. We give devoted homage to the Founding Fathers. They not only proclaimed that the freedom and rights of men came from the Creator and not from the State, but they provided safeguards to those freedoms.
Our Government was created by the people for all the people, and it must serve no less a purpose.
The Republican Party was formed 100 years ago to preserve the Nation's devotion to these ideals.
On its Centennial, the Republican Party again calls to the minds of all Americans the great truth first spoken by Abraham Lincoln: "The legitimate object of Government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves in their separate and individual capacities. But in all that people can individually do as well for themselves, Government ought not to interfere."
Our great President Dwight D. Eisenhower has counseled us further: "In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with people's money, or their economy, or their form of government, be conservative."
The rest is awesome reading -- I could cherry-pick the highlights but go and read
the entire thing.
This is what politics started out as -- the Democratic Party too. If J.F.K. was running today, I would vote for him in a heartbeat.
Our problem today is that the 'interest groups' have chipped away at our core values. It is Pander Bears all the way down...
These were sincere and honest people trying to make the world a better place -- on both sides...
Posted by DaveH at September 19, 2012 10:01 PM