"Center-Right" -- the new lipstick.

Center-right is the new lipstick on the same pig. What we need is to put it on something new.
Essay by Bud
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For years, we've heard the term "compassionate conservative" to describe what the Republican Party wanted to pretend it was doing.  

If the Party were really compassionate and conservative, it would not have run up the debt it has. It would not have favored those who are already favored.  It would not have followed policies which would crash the economy. 

Now, the Party which claimed to be "compassionate conservative" is saying it is "center-right." The term is on every Republican lip now, right next to the lipstick.  This is an attempt to associate all the miserable results it presided over as being the fault of someone else -- George Bush -- you know, someone who strayed, someone who goofed, someone who is not really a Republican after all. 

So, they are going to stop using the pitch of "conservative," and try "center right."

I could preach for hours about the terms "left," "right,"  and "center." I have put many students to sleep doing it. So I'll just assume the typical reader understands what the terms are supposed to mean. 

"Center-right" is the lipstick on the pig. It is a cosmetic term that will mean nothing unless the Republicans become more patriotic instead war-mongering, unless they include more people instead of trying to change everybody to suit themselves, unless they promote more sensible domestic ideas than Guns, (some-kind-a) God, and greed.

You can change the language all you like, but when you stand for what the Republicans have been standing for, and when you put forth candidates such as the Republican Party has been putting forth, and when you produce results as disastrous as the Republican Party has been producing lately, then you are not "center-right."