What Republicans Will Be Voting For on November 7th

Great commentary at Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/what-republicans-will-be-_b_32306.html

We have heard endless commentary from main line pundits about how the Democratic Party lacks a coherent program going into the 2006-midterm elections. This criticism may be valid, but Democratic promises are not any more worthy of attention than the actual governing record of the Republican Party. Republicans who plan to go to the polls and sheepishly cast their votes for their party's standard bearers on November 7th should ask themselves: What are we voting for?



Here are some possible answers:

The "Fiscally Conservative" Republicans will be voting for record budget deficits and a national debt of some $8 trillion.

The "Libertarian" Republicans will be voting for run away government power over individual rights in the form of NSA wiretaps, secret prisons, and the suspension of habeas corpus.

The "Small Government" Republicans will be voting in favor of a greatly expanded federal bureaucracy. (The 2003 changes in Medicare alone will add over $720 billion in government spending; and the "No Child Left Behind" law has infused the federal government into areas that had been previously left to the states.)

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I find it interesting that this question isn't be addressed more. We get the overplayed media message about the enraged Democrats voting....but what is compeling the Republican voter to show up on 11/7? Is abortion and gay marriage so important that everything else is forgivable? I really would be interested in the media interviewing Joe Republican and seeing what his motivation is to continue "more of the same".