In his column today,
Republican activist Dennis Lennox takes the position that that GOP should
accept the minimum wage as part of the status quo and stop making comments that
portray the Republicans as “the party of big business and Wall Street fat cats.”
Republican activist Dennis Lennox takes the position that that GOP should
accept the minimum wage as part of the status quo and stop making comments that
portray the Republicans as “the party of big business and Wall Street fat cats.”
Writing for our sister paper,
The (Mount Pleasant) Morning Sun, here’s a portion of Lennox’s piece:
The (Mount Pleasant) Morning Sun, here’s a portion of Lennox’s piece:
“The present debate
surrounding the minimum wage is a perfect example of (the)
inability to articulate a coherent message that adds voters to the
Republican Party’s electoral column in its quest to form a national
governing majority.
“Rand
Paul, the unabashed libertarian Republican U.S. senator from Kentucky
and heir apparent to father Ron Paul’s movement, took his ideology
to the extreme when he refused to say whether he supports the (current)
minimum wage in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer last week.
“Not
only was this politically stupid, but it was an unforced error that
raises serious questions about the viability of Paul, who has otherwise
repudiated the kookiness of his father by not only embracing pragmatic
libertarianism but also by aggressively working to grow his support
beyond Paul the Elder’s true believers.”
surrounding the minimum wage is a perfect example of (the)
inability to articulate a coherent message that adds voters to the
Republican Party’s electoral column in its quest to form a national
governing majority.
“Rand
Paul, the unabashed libertarian Republican U.S. senator from Kentucky
and heir apparent to father Ron Paul’s movement, took his ideology
to the extreme when he refused to say whether he supports the (current)
minimum wage in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer last week.
“Not
only was this politically stupid, but it was an unforced error that
raises serious questions about the viability of Paul, who has otherwise
repudiated the kookiness of his father by not only embracing pragmatic
libertarianism but also by aggressively working to grow his support
beyond Paul the Elder’s true believers.”
