tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post3447357399780788774..comments2023-10-26T08:02:44.948-04:00Comments on Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State: The Open Primary Trap DoorDon Pescihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-76024740859432664962015-02-10T22:21:37.779-05:002015-02-10T22:21:37.779-05:00Our Principles More Individual Freedoms, Less Gove...Our Principles More Individual Freedoms, Less Government Interference - See more at: http://www.ctgop.org/about/#sthash.KByzZzRX.dpuf<br />----------------<br />The principles of the Party are generally laudable. They hearken back to Ronald Reagan more than to Prescott Bush. The problem, perhaps, is that at this point, fifty years after our new Nutmeg Constitution and fifty years into the 1960's cultural revolution, it's not enough to stand athwart history demanding a generalized stoppage. The welfare state and its maleffects, including especially fiscal irresponsibility, have to be relentlessly exposed so that the electorate may go along with counter-revolution. Such a hoped for reactionary movement will only develop, if at all, in the context of closed primaries allowing the party to respond to the interests of its base; the conservative remnant.<br />-----------<br />Prescott Bush was politically active on social issues. He was involved with the American Birth Control League as early as 1942, and served as the treasurer of the first national capital campaign of Planned Parenthood in 1947....<br />He was a key ally for the passage of Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System,[12] and during his tenure supported the Polaris submarine project (built by Electric Boat Corporation in Groton, Connecticut), civil rights legislation, and the establishment of the Peace Corps.[13]<br /><br />On December 2, 1954, Prescott Bush was part of the large (67–22) majority to censure Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy after McCarthy had taken on the U.S. Army and the Eisenhower administration.peter brushnoreply@blogger.com