A Republican Party I Would Respect

What can be done to salvage the Republican Party? … It’s leaders obsess about what they call the decline of its “brand,” in itself a mark of a party invested more in marketing than in principle. Rep. Tom Davis, former head of its congressional campaign committee, concludes that, “If we were a dog food, they’d take us off the shelf.” – Off the Shelf by Robert Borosage – The Huffington Post

Borosage here proposes that the Republican Party return not to Ronald Reagan but to Ike. His description of the Republican Party under Ike is of a party I can not only live with but actually respect.