The Republican Pledge

I was looking at the advance copy of the Republican Pledge to America, the campaign manifesto that will be issued by the party leaders tomorrow in Virginia. It is surprisingly detailed and surprisingly principled.

For months and years the Democrats have ignored the policy proposals of the Republicans and said that there were no ideas offered by the GOP. This was just a political lie, but it is now dead. With this Pledge document, no one could say there are no ideas from the GOP. Indeed, there is more detail here than the Democrats have given the country about bills before demainding a vote on them.

The ideas presented are, in general, conservative common sense ideas. The Republicans want to cut spending. They outline about 200 billion in specific cuts and another, even bigger chunk in more general terms. They also address the need for freeing up small business to grow and thereby create the jobs that the economy needs. They take on Obamacare and call for its repeal, but they also put forward a proposal as to what to use in its place. They also deal with national defense, an issue that needs a debate now that we know that Obama has been lying to us about his commitments in Afghanistan.

The Pledge is a document that all thinking Americans should review. It is almost certain that the Obamacrats will first distort the document and then attack it as distorted. This is standard operating procedure among the Obamacrats. It would be good if the public were sufficiently educated as to the contents of the Pledge so that they can tell when the Democrats are going into one of their lies.

I congratulate the GOP for putting forward its ideas. This year, the economy is so bad that the GOP could have run on the basis that they are not democrats. It would probably be enough to win. Nevertheless, the point of a campaign in a democracy is not just to win, but also to educate the voters as to why they should support you. The GOP is doing this, and they are being honest about it. On the other side, there are now about 100 Democrats who have suddenly become conservatives and anti-Washington despite having been part of the group that voted for Obamacare, cap and trade, the stimulus, the Obama budget and all of the other super liberal garbage that Congress has dumped on the country. Republicans are running on their positions. Democrats are running from theirs. This is reason enough to elect the GOP.