Let's Start Selecting Presidents By Using A Shultz Standard, By George

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Let's Start Selecting Presidents By Using A Shultz Standard, By George

Bill Whalen , Contributor

 

There’s growing talk of how to mend the Republican Party moving forward, should Donald Trump crash and burn on Election Day — and take a portion of the GOP with him.

 

What caught my eye: this New York Times column by Erick Erickson, which concluded as follows:

 

The Republican Party must be the party of religious liberty. When beliefs clash, people and government need to accommodate those differences. To force people of faith to adhere to secular standards is as much an imposition of a religious viewpoint as forcing secular people to adhere to the standards of a religion.

 

The party must also get government out of the marketplace, except to ensure a level playing field and protect against fraud. It must support innovation and creative disruption, lower taxes and reduce regulation. And it must find ways to help people transition out of our archaic social welfare programs by assisting them in establishing individual savings accounts that could pay for health care and college educations.

 

Lastly, Republicans should establish themselves as the party of heterogeneity