Ronald Reagan’s Budget Director describes today’s Republican Party

I’m convinced that if Ronald Reagan ran for president today, he would not have any chance of being the Republican Party nominee.  Further proof of how far the Republican party has drifted comes from David Stockman, who served as Ronald Reagan’s Budget Director.  During a recent interview, Stockman was asked about today’s Republican party:

I think the Republican Party is not really a party. It doesn’t stand for anything except reelecting itself. It’s a coalition of gangs….

The Neo Cons which I have no use for are only oriented to an aggressive imperialistic foreign policy, a big defense establishment, and suppression of our civil liberties. That’s a bad. I am against that.

The Tax Cons want to just cut taxes anytime any day regardless of the fiscal situation. That has gone to absurd lengths. I oppose that.

The Social Cons, social policy people, the right to life issue, gay marriage and all that, that’s irrelevant to governing a democracy in a free society.

That is basically the heart of the Republican Party. In that mix how can you find anything that is going to stand for conservative economics, fiscal rectitude, free markets, sound money; it’s not there. The Republican Party is basically irrelevant to the economic crisis that faces the country.

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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    grumpypilgrim

    Stockman claims, “The Republican Party is basically irrelevant to the economic crisis that faces the country.” He’s wrong. The Republican Party is not “irrelevant” to the economic crisis that faces the country: it *caused* the economic crisis.

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