1. Fiscal Policy:  Tax less, spend less, and reduce the size of the federal government. Get rid of earmarks!  Eliminate the Department of Education, the Department of Homeland Security (Does anyone feel more secure since its creation?); eliminate HUD; trash No Child Left Behind; eliminate the Department of Energy (Been to the gas staion lately?); reduce the federal workforce by freezing hiring and letting bureaucratic positions disappear through attrition (time to stop the gourging at the public trough); implement a FairTax, or flat tax system and dump the IRS; end corporate welfare; end agricultural subsidies; privatize social security; balance the budget; eliminate all death taxes; eliminate the capital gains tax; use the line item veto and let the chips fall where they may.  In addition, end the ineffective and costly "War on Drugs" (It's about as effective as prohibition and LBJ's War on Poverty!) thus taking violence out of the loop, freeing up prison cells for violent criminals (Do we put alcoholics in jail if they posses a bottle of Thunderbird?), and use this savings to beef up boarder security.
2. Social Issues:  It's simple, let the states decide (States' rights, what a concept!).  End federal funding of abortions. Let the states decide on abortion, gay marrige and civil unions, the right to die, medical marijuana, and all the rest.  Why do we constantly complain about the Democrats creating a "Nanny State," yet we insist on legislating morals and values?  We need to cut our ties to the religious right.  Listen to these words from Goldwater, "The rights we have under the Constitution cover anything we want to do as long as it's not harmful...Free people have a right to do as they damn well please...I can't see any way in the world that being gay can damage someone else...The Republican party should stand for freedom, and only freedom."  We are not the party of God (Whose God would that be by the way?).  We are the party of freedom and we should stand for seperation of church and state and fight for the freedom to worship any faith we choose, as well as the freedom not to worship.  We need to get the federal government out of our lives!
3. National Security and Foreign Policy:   Secure our boarders now without amnesty, we can deal with illegals after we tighten up our immigration policies. Complete the succesful surge strategy in Iraq, stablize the country, and then turn it over to their government and their U.S. trained military and police force.  Let this be our last attempt at nation building.  Strengthen our military and national defense without increasing spending.  How?  Bring our sons and daughters home from places they are truly not needed any longer.  We need to get out of Western Europe and Korea.  Let the Japanese and the so called advance european democracies defend themselves (Why should we bear the cost of their security?).  Remain a close ally of Israel.  Strenthen the CIA and put more operatives on the gound.  If we really want to get serious in this war on terror; having accurate intelligence is a must.  Develop a strong, mobile anti-terrorist force that can implement quick and decisive stikes against terrorist cells, training camps, safe-havens, and strongholds.  Let every country know that if they enable the Islamic Facists then we will pay them a short visit, and when we come, "hell is coming with us!"  We need to send a strong message to these folks, if you kill us then we will kill you back.

That's all.  It's that simple, but who has the courage to shake up the party and get it back on track again? Pehaps true conservatives, Goldwater conservatives (like me) should look elsewhere for a home (The Libertarian party perhaps?) if our party's tent is not big enough to include us.  I fully expect the wrath of all the "dittoheads," and those that have been "Hannitized," to come my way.  Please do.  Bring it on!

We are about to experience change.  Real change.  The mainstream press and media have jumped on the Obama bandwagon and I believe he will be our next president unless a candidate with substance is chosen to challenge him.  Forget the fact that he has not defined any policy positions, domestic or foreign, he stands for change, and "yes we can!" 

My fear is that the change that will take place in an Obama administration will take us down the road of Western European Social Democracies.  A road that takes detours to higher taxes, less personal freedom, and a Nanny State that provides cradle to grave for the masses.  We will become a country  with limited ideas and incentive, a country that legislates feelings (You know, what to think and how you should think; can you say reparations, Gay Rights, and government indoctrination?), and never ending entitlement programs, but don't worry, be happy, because "yes we can!"

We can have higher taxes, new burdensome bureaucracies, a new expansion of federal entitlement progams, and less individual and economic freedom, "yes we can!"  Say goodbye to state rights and hello to Big Brother.  We will all bow at the alter of "yes we can!"  And what if you believe in less government, less taxes, and less federal intrusion into our lives.  You're $%*# out of luck.   Imagine Oprah as Obama's Secretary of Education and the re-education camps she would implement, reminiscent of those in that wonderful movie, Red Dawn.  That's where we're headed, only Oprah would more than likely take our children away and place them in schools, like the one she started in Africa,  where they will be taught they should never listen to their parents, dispensed a reading list from her book club, and literally experience both feast and famine as their weight yo yo's throughout their adolescent years.

There is no alternative to Obama in the Republican Party.  Think about it; what are they offering?  Huckabee's "I can be a liberal (But I believe in God!) too, John McCain's "I'm a maverick because I'll cave in to liberals on the Hill,"  Fred Thompson's "My poll numbers will increase as soon as the writers' strike is over,"  Mitt Romney's, "What can I do to get you into that car today?" spiel,  Ron Paul's, "Put your head in the sand foreign policy," and Rudy's, "I'll cut government spending unless I get a new girlfriend pledge." Can Newt be drafted at the convention, because the Republican field is a caricature of what the party has become;  increased spending, preemptive wars, and  new entitlement programs.  Where is the new Goldwater?  Where is the new Reagan? Newt, why did you forsake us?

We need to talk about change, we need to demand change, and since the Republican Party has been hijacked by "Rockefeller Country Club Republicans,"we need to find a new home.  We need to define what has made this country great.  The ideals all americans should hold near and dear to their hearts, limited government, personal responsibility and accountability, and a foreign policy that repudiates nation building and intervenes only when our national interest is at risk.  Run, run as fast as you can to the Libertarian Party and make a statement, "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any more!"  I for one will continue to "Root for America!"  As the Great Communicator once said, "...Satus quo is Latin for the mess we're in...":

    It is hard for me to write this.  I come from good Republican stock, ventured into chthonic depths of college liberalism, was resurrected by reading Patrick Buchanan Right From the Beginning, and I reveled in the Reagan Revolution.  Where has our party gone?  Where are the ideas of Goldwater and Reagan, lower taxes, limited government, and personal freedom?  Why have they been replaced with increased federal spending, new entitlement programs, and preemptive wars?  As I become more and more disillusioned with the Republican party, I have searched for a new home, someplace where the common sense politics of Goldwater and Reagan reside.  That most certainly is not the Democratic party.  The "Nanny State" party who's leaders feel the need to tell us how to live, what to do with our money, and know so much better than the common man how we should live our lives, no they certainly have no answers for the problems that face America.  As my search continues I find myself drawn to the Libertarian movement.  Not the Ron Paul facile watered down Libertarian mantra, but the true Goldwater inspired conservative movement.  The party that still believes in these famous words from Ronald Reagan, "...government is not the solution,,,it's the problem."  I urge any readers of this, my first attempt to communicate politically (please excuse my verbal and written limitations), to visit some of the blogs I have listed.  Particularly, Wayne Root's website, and ask yourself why are we limited to two political parties, when neither serve our needs, ideals, or ideology of limited government and personal responsibility.