Can the Republican Party Take Power Only to Give It Up?
George Washington is the proper model for the Republican Party, as a man who had power and gave it up in order to safeguard the rights and freedoms of the citizens
"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing."Edmund Burke
It's easy enough to be a Democrat. All you have to do is promise the expansion of big government, without actually using those same exact words. And voting to expand their own power base, is something that's up every politician's street. By contrast, being a Republican is far trickier, because it often requires politicians to campaign on a platform of giving up their own power. And that is something that politicians may promise, but very rarely do.