Despite the rapid response of millions who possess different political viewpoints, the myth of the liberal monopoly on compassion remains embedded in our society.

If indeed former Alaska Governor and Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is the joke the new left claims her to be, one wonders why they don’t simply ignore her.

Some reformers have expressed doubt that a centrist based party can be built because, as they state it, the center is a myth and the party is just too far to the right leaving only a mere moderation of conservatism as an option for reform. The problem with the main argument, that centrism is a myth, lies in their premise of it having never existed.

The left in America has tunnel vision they see and hear what they want to see and hear. How many of them remained silent when death threats were directed at Bush? How many were outraged when images of Bush were being hung with blood pouring from his head at so called “Peace Rallies?

While progressive republicans would push for a stimulus that while acknowledging the accepted belief that heavy spending is necessary to get us out of crisis, whether it be a Great Depression or recession, it would draw a stark difference with the pet project plan put forth by democrats. Fiscal responsibility would be key obviously in a republican plan, one that would focus in making sure that every dollar spent has as much impact as possible; to get as much “bang for your buck” using this old phrase as the base of any major stimulus or spending legislation. Useless pet projects need to be identified as those which do not fit the bill of creating as many jobs as possible and to be as widely used as possible. While there need to be projects for short term stimulus, scrutiny and just better decision making on whether these projects actually do the best at stimulating the environment must be done for the moderate and long term financial health of the nation.

Progressivism as done by the democrats has become merely a throw more money and raise more taxes solution to issues and problems. Many times this is done without proper inquiry and oversight into how it is being spent or even if what it is being spent on is even necessary or beneficial to the taxpayers and the ones it is meant to help.

I was shocked to learn about the history of the democrat party and how that party laid the foundation that has influenced race relations in America in the past. Those past political actions by the democrat party continue, to this day, to exploit the impoverished condition of black Americans, which were caused by the democrat party for the purpose of gaining political power.

History can be a stubborn fact for those who seek to ignore it and what better way than to pretend that the grand history of the GOP did not start in the 1850’s, that Lincoln was not the first Republican president, and that it was not a party of progress, than to just say that the roots of the party started with the past Reagan Revolution and maybe with Barry Goldwater.

It would be good for those who seek to return the party to ideas that have nothing in common with Republicanism but who realize that they may not have as strong a platform to voice their desires otherwise and therefore any attempts to discredit the actual past history of the party is in their view necessary.