Ok, so I was listening to Shawn Haniddy today while I was taking my kids to DQ. I ended up flipping to that channel because "Food schmooze" was on NPR, and the sports station was talking about the Bruins (not a big hockey fan). So anyway here was his lead in montage (paraphrased):
Arlen Specter and Olympia Snow are not real republicans, they have always been Democrats in reality. We need to get even more conservative. We just need a really good speaker and we can win big time.
O.K. so basically what I am hearing is that the Republicans need to get more radical, and get a really good speaker to convince everyone that we don't want socialized health care (what we Dem's would call Universal Health care), we don't want socialized education.
So I guess a really, truly good speaker could convince us that we need free market solutions to everything (because that worked so well for Power deregulation, tel-co deregulation, and bank deregulation).
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