[DevilsWin]

After years of straying from its limited-government principles, pandering to the culturally meddlesome religious right while allowing neo-conservatives to drive foreign policy, it is time for a clock cleaning.

A clock cleaning is the ticket to change within the GOP.

What constitutes a clock cleaning? A Democrat in the White House, more Democrats to the US House of Representatives, more Democrats in the US Senate, more Democrats in the State Assembly and State Senate.

Perhaps then the religious right will not be too concerned if people view marriage differently. Perhaps then we will work to minimize the number of abortions rather than worrying about passing legislation making the act criminal. Perhaps then we will abandon the war on drugs and adopt a policy of “least harm”. Perhaps then we will reclaim our communities. Perhaps then we will have a foreign policy that minimizes risk to

I hope the GOP gets the message. We have to return to limited-government. We need to return to the “big tent” that Ronald Reagan mentioned. If the GOP can’t get the message, the Republican Party may go the way of the Whig Party.