Former U.S. Congressman Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," tells Newsmax that the Republican Party betrayed core conservative values over the past eight years and will need to reform."George W. Bush's brand of conservatism and the party's brand of conservatism over the past 10 years meant runaway deficits, the doubling of the debt, a $7 trillion added entitlement program for Medicare You add that together and you see that the Republican Party wasn't too conservative, it was too radical.
"Of course the mainstream media still loves to say that if Republicans are going to find their way again, they've got to become more moderate. They've got to become more liberal. But that's just not the case.
"What we need to do is return to first principles. Those are conservative principles of less spending, less government, and less military adventurism."
....it wasn't eight years of failure. But on the core concept that defines the conservative movement, which is the concept of limited government, the relationship between the individual and the centralized state, the past eight years, the past 10 years have been very bad for the conservative movement."
How long will it take for the GOP to recover? Walter asked Scarborough.
"The New York Times asked me this last week if it was going to be a generation, and I said it's anywhere between a generation and a year," he said.
"We could come back in 2010. But we have to have a very clear message for voters."
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