Politics is a tough business. Despite what the country’s founding fathers may have thought about building a citizen government, the reality is that governing is tough, dirty work, not for the faint of heart.
Idealists get trampled out of existence by the pragmatists in government because compromise is an art form. It’s the give and take between vested interests that allows government to function. Take away the ability to compromise, to agree on differences, and you end up with gridlock.
Republicans created the gridlock in the federal government because they allowed in too many idealists from the right. Their influence became too much of “my way or die.” Such inspiration is hardly reflective of the framers of the U.S. Constitution, themselves pragmatic argumentarians.
Can the Republican Party be saved?
Yes. Why? Because pragmatism always wins. Pragmatism is the only solution that benefits the majority. The Republicans of the Bush era forgot that, and their party will suffer for years to come.
How can Hillary Clinton help save the Republican Party?
Clinton for President in ’08 is the first step. I’m a pragmatist. I know that a woman in the White House will be a polarizing event for the electorate. It will also be an opportunity for the few Republican pragmatists left in government. Instead of rallying to take back the government in the name of God and exploit the majority with their minority idealism, they’ll band together against a common enemy– a woman, a woman in the White House, a Democrat.
That’s how Hillary Clinton will save the Republican Party. And I’ll make it look easy.
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