Ah yes, the sad truth -

After Goldwater’s landslide defeat, two Republican progressives who later became conservatives, George Gilder and Bruce Chapman, wrote a brilliant book called “The Party That Lost Its Head,” detailing how and why the party’s liberal wing responded so anemically to the conservative challenge. But it was too late. The party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt was destined to become an annex of the conservative movement.

Most people (including me) have a hard time reconciling the fact that Lincoln and Roosevelt were Republican. What would they think about the party of Bush? Its funny to me because I would have considered myself a Republican right up until Bush was elected. I am Canadian, so I don’t get to vote, but I am pro-business, anti-regulation. By the way, have you ever tried to pay payroll taxes for your employees, or file a corporate tax return? If you have, you would know why I feel the way I do.

But back to Bush. It is very hard to reconcile his free spending ways with conservatism. What happened to the idea of a balanced budget? I am willing to think that there is a major upset coming in the Republican future.

Time will tell.

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If you would like to find out what the great minds are thinking, Google has introduced a new search engine called Google Scholar.

Here is the link http://scholar.google.com

My lovely wife Louise Roth has a new book coming out. To discuss the ideas in it, she started a blog with the same name. Maybe it will even help sales! The book is called “Selling Women Short” and so it the blog, at http://sellingwomenshort.net Go there!