2/1/16
I sent the following letter to the Wall Street Journal just after the dawn of the new year. Since it is now apparent that the Journal will not publish this piece, I’m
posting it for the benefit of my readers.
Thanks.
1/5/16
As the Journal
points out (“The GOP’s 2016 Opportunity,” Review and Outlook, 1/5/16), the
Republicans have a more than decent shot at the White House in 2016 as a
consequence of such things as President
Obama’s low approval ratings, Hillary
Clinton’s dearth of political skills, and the American people’s not
surprising inability to trust Mrs. Clinton.
But while the Journal talks of
the GOP’s Opportunity, perhaps we should clarify whose opportunity the 2016 election
presents. The professional GOPers, the hangers-on who will divide the spoils of
being in office while piously proclaiming their fealty to the private sector
and the free market, indeed have an opportunity in 2016. But what of the ranks and file Republican,
or simply the working American who, judging from the rhetoric of the two
parties, ought to be a rank and file Republican?
The typical working American can count on this from a
mainstream Republican president vis a vis
the current Administration or its
continuance in a Clinton Administration: slightly more allegiance to the free market,
a slightly more business friendly approach to governance, slightly more
coziness with Wall Street, a slightly more interventionist foreign policy,
slightly more social conservatism, slightly more diligence on our borders, and ever
so slightly less trembling at the thought of being accused of violating the
latest tenet of the religion of political correctness that seems to have
assumed the role of dominant creed in our country.
Oh, boy; what a wonderful opportunity.
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