New America guided by reckless Democrats

Lou Major Sr.

aRepublican Party bigwigs got together last week at a pizza joint near D. C. to form the National Council for a New America.

They didn't sign a "contract" for America, I suppose, because Newt Gingrich wasn't there. I don't know if Newt was invited or not, but if he wasn't, he should have been.

Rep. Eric Cantor from Virginia is credited with getting this started with the hope that the Grand Ole Party can start winning something one of these days. Ex-Gov. Jeb Bush was there along with Massachusetts ex-Gov. Mitt Romney.

I don't recall hearing too many respected Republicans blaming the presidential loss on a lousy campaign by Sen. John McCain and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska. Two years ago nobody outside shouting distance of Chicago ever heard of Barack Obama. The Republicans initially laughed him off as a joke that the Democrats were putting before the American people in desperation.

Only after Obama began his spirited speeches did the Republicans, I among them, begin to think that maybe this African American senator from Illinois had a chance. But as Obama's campaign began rolling like a bowling ball, Sen. McCain was sleep-walking across the country in a snoozer of a campaign.

"My friends McCain" reached out in desperation to Alaska to pick a woman, Gov. McCain, grasping at straws in the misguided hope that something – anything -- could wake up potential voters to listen to his promises.

I felt sorry for Gov. Palin, an attractive woman who set the standard for eyeglass fashion. I like Gov. Palin; I think she has done very well for her folks up in frigidland. But I do not think Gov. Palin was ready to become President of the United States in the event something happened to Sen. McCain.

We do, indeed, have a "new " America, but it is evolving only because of the financial recklessness of the ruling Democratic Party. I don't know who's going to pay for all the stuff that's coming down the pike. No telling what their "universal health care" boondoggle is going to cost.

No telling what it will cost if the government guarantees a free college education for every kid in America.

Billions for failed banks, billions for failed auto-makers, billions in foreign aid even to enemies of our country. Millions and millions in wasteful earmarks all over the country.

Is anybody going to ask the president this one question: how are the American people going to pay for all this? Give us the details, one million dollars at a time.

Today, let's tell the truth: the Republicans don't have a clue what to do to stop the Democratic party financial runaway. There is no leader. McCain is finished; Palin is not the answer; unfortunately Romney is tagged as not electable because he is a Mormon (baloney), Gingrich has too much personal baggage; Rep. Cantor is unheard of.

The GOP better get busy if it hopes to win Congressional seats next year. And even so, the country has more than three and-a-half years of liberal government in Maison Blanche.

Lou Major Sr. is a former publisher of The Daily News.