If that headline makes your blood boil, you might want to avoid Michael Barone’s latest column in U.S. News.
Barone argues that Republicans need new ideas for 2008, and he’s not talking about the mantra of small government that limits its intrusion into people’s lives:
[W]ho thinks we’re going to get rid of big government? [President] Bush’s approach has been to enhance choice and accountability, to rely more on markets and less on government commands. It’s the only realistic conservatism for America today.
Barone’s even willing to take a look at winning ideas from both sides of the political fence. He cites Republican Jeb Bush and Democrat Phil Bredesen as innovators.
