How to Beat Hillary: Stop the GOP Fratricide

Every now and then even the Daily Beast is right.

by Rod D. Martin
August 5, 2013

Gosh I hate to agree with the Daily Beast, but this article by Lloyd Green ("How to Beat Hillary: Stop the Republican Fratricide") is spot-on. First just the math: you have to get to 51 (%, that is), and it takes a coalition to get there.

But second, I never thought I'd see a Republican Party that had issues with keeping the promise of Social Security (though we want to do it better than the Socialist Security model that's going to leave my generation holding the bag), disaster relief (the most basic form of "common defense"), and veterans' benefits. Veterans benefits??? If we can't take proper care of our veterans, we do not deserve our country.

This may offend "libertarian purists", but I'm sorry: how many votes did the Libertarian Party get last year? That's how a coalition, an alliance, or even a family works: nobody gets all of what they want, so that everyone can get most of what they want. I have little problem with libertarian economics. I have an e…