To save the Republican Party by forsaking its fundamental principles?
From Joe Scarborough, former member of Congress from Florida and current talking head, in a Time Magazine piece about how to reconstruct the Republican Party.
We should erase the shabby standards of financial oversight that have weakened us all in the age of Bernie Madoff. Corporate bailouts need to end — but Republicans must be determined to never again adopt a laissez-faire approach to Wall Street. After Black Monday, the Asian crisis, Long-Term Capital Management’s meltdown, the Internet bust, the Enron scandal, WorldCom’s collapse and the subprime crisis, there is nothing conservative about turning a blind eye to reckless speculation and greed.
Surely you jest. (Though, I jest on one or two of them myself.) What Republican Party would this make? Heck, the Democrat with the most credibility on this score was drummed out on a sex scandal.