I grew up in a home with a "Wilkie Republican father and a (FDR) Roosevelt Democrat Mother.
It was hard to tell what side they stood on many times, if the stood anywhere at all. They loved Edward R. Murrow and Eric Sevaried, Murrow more for his sycophantic 'Person to Person' shows and 'This is London' radio broadcasts during the War, and Sevaried for his pompous vague, New York Times' safe opinions on what Americans SHOULD think.
My folks did have some contradictory strong opinions that were not too uncommon in the 1960's. As an FDR Democrat, mother was anti-civil rights. As a Wilkie 'One-World' Republican, father hated Ronald Reagan.
You see, I'm third generation Californian (grandma, dad & I were all born in Los Angeles County), and when the "actor" Ronald Reagan became Governor, he cut spending and raised tuition for the University of California and State Colleges from nearly free to just above free to attend higher education. One of my brothers went to UCLA and was planning to go to Greece for an archaeological dig as part of the campus program on the taxpayer. Reagan cancelled this type of program unless the student's contributed to the cost. Dad took that personally.
The point of this tale about my folk's politics is that too many of the sitting Republican Office Holders are the go-along-get-along Wilkie type Republicans (also known as County Club Republicans) who like to sit and complain over drinks on the veranda about how low the Democrats treat them, but they refuse to lead. Even under Newt Gingrich, the Democrats got their way. They use classic dialectical materialist tactics, two steps forward, one step back. Obama is a dancing-master of this step.
If you want to stand for something, then stand up first! Don't talk repeal of Obamacare...REPEAL IT!
It will take years, probably a new President, but we are now on the road to perdition of "where do I get my free healthcare?" Free healthcare will cost our freedom (what is left of it) and Obama knows it and wants it.
Pertinent reminders of Weenie Republicans- 
"Sen. John Cornyn, the Texas Republican who chairs the committee responsible for getting GOP candidates elected to the Senate this fall. Cornyn initially unfurled the "repeal and replace" banner, only to quickly make an exception for the "non-controversial stuff," such as the ban on preexisting conditions which is unfortunately exactly what necessitates the "controversial stuff" like the individual mandate."
"Republicans against repeal have found an amen corner in the cooler heads among conservative commentators. One Oliver Garland evencounseled that repeal was fundamentally unconservative: "True conservatives are not radicals; they respect tradition and work for stable reform to fix institutions."
"There you have it: Repealing a bill that became law last month is radical. Acquiescing to a decades-long flurry of legislation that effectively repeals the Constitution's limits on federal power is conservative. Ronald Reagan should have raised taxes to conserve the Great Society and shouted, "Mr. Gorbachev, remember and reform that wall!""
Then again, this appears to be the working definition of conservatism embraced by most GOP politicians. Republicans campaign on canceling spending programs, shutting down government agencies, and overturning Roe v. Wade. But once safely in office, they tend to leave most liberal handiwork alone, failing to repeal even Bill Clinton's tax increases. Occasionally they add a few big-government flourishes of their own -- a new entitlement to enlarge Medicare's unfunded liabilities here, a record increase in federal education spending there."
On the other side, Joe Hicks in his HICKS FILE believes "We Can Repeal Obamacare."
Let's hope he's right!
Let's hope he's right!
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