Admit it - you enjoy drinking lattes as well!

I can't believe that I've been able to hold my tongue on this blog throughout this political season, but now that it's almost over, I have this to say. If you are part of the Republican party, you may want to reconsider your conservative principles so that most ordinary humans are not tripped up by them.

What do I mean? The Republicans tend to get into trouble because they can't figure out how to set standards low enough so that they don't get burned by the same standards. When Dan Rostenkowski got convicted of illegally using government resources in the early 90s, Republicans got swept in because they were going to run a clean and efficient government. Then enter Newt Gingrich's Revolution and they were going to make sure that government shrank and got off of our backs. Never mind the promises of a government that lived up to a better morality and was for the little guy, and that ensured that liberals could never again take office.

What has happened since? Newt Gringrich, Mark Foley, and Vito Fasselli, the Congressman from Staten Island, New York (and many others) got busted for having their pants down (literally). Family values were so important that my buddy Vito had two of them. W has increased the size of government many times over. And the little guy . . . does Sarah Palin's Neiman Marcus wardrobe qualify as one Joe the Plumber and his wife would wear?

Frankly, I'm not so worried about sexual impropriety (alright, Mark trying to diddle minors goes way too far), smaller government, or the wardrobe of a woman who is in the public eye. However, when you get all high and mighty about sexual morality, make government bigger and more efficient for Halliburton, and claim you're all for the Wal-Mart crowd, these things are problematic. Perhaps a reborn Republican party might want to reconsider attacking people for their sex lives; decide that government should be bigger for military and defense purposes and shrink it for everything else they don't like; and decide that drinking lattes and driving Volvos may not have been so bad! At least we have one thing in common - I like lattes and love Volvos!