This article got my attention given my review of the two parties' fund raising material to get insight into the overall philosophy of each. I found one passage especially that seemed to echo one of my Ezines.

"“As grassroots Republicans, we demand a return to our party’s core principles.” Such a revival, the platform implies, will fix just about everything.

"That places the document on more familiar footing, and in the traditional manner it becomes a series of bold proposals, made all the bolder by the knowledge that, with the party safely slumped in a comfortable minority in both houses of Congress, there’s no chance they’ll be acted upon for the foreseeable future, no matter who the president is. “Core principles” are much easier to “return to” when they’re strictly hypothetical."
 
Read the complete article from the NY Times at this link.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/opinion/31ferguson.html?th&emc=th