I Heart Governor Huntsman

I admit it… I didn’t vote for the guy. But this quote today about his feelings on where our political party has gone in the past thirteen years or so sums is up perfectly.

“Our moral soapbox was completely taken away from us because of our behavior in the last few years,” he said. “For us to now criticize analogous behavior is hypocrisy. We’ve got to come at it a different way. We’ve got to prove the point. It can’t be as the Chinese would say, ‘fei hua,’ [or] empty words.”

Finally. A fellow Republican who gets it. I’m still a Republican because of the three tiers I consider fundamental to the platform:

1. Fiscal Responsibility
2. Strong military
3. Small government.

I watched my party rally behind George Bush Jr. in ever-increasing spending bills to fund a war that substantially weakened both our military capability through constant deployments and our National Guard through unheard-of mobilization levels. I watched as Homeland Security took over as arguably the most important and visible of all the Cabinet departments.

I’m sick of watching my party go down the tubes. Let’s get back to our roots: reduce government, reduce spending, keep the military strong yet little-used. And let’s stop being hypocrites who embrace those core values only when it’s convenient.

–Matt B. The Republican.