The first thing I'm going to do here is try something collaborative. It's going to be a Cobbler kind of thing and maybe we can cobble something reasonable together.
The Republican Party and any party has to be able to clearly communicate to the American people what they should expect from government - they need to refresh the basic covenant with the people. It is only based on these kind of objective baselines that we can say with any confidence whether we as American can be committed to our government agendas or if we should throw the bums out. Right now, it is my perception that 'consent of the governed' is getting short shrift and we feel that there's nothing to be done about it. So the natural inclination of the Left is to gather highly intelligent problem solvers, and the natural inclination of the Right is to gather highly moral patriots. These sets overlap, but neither are sufficient to deliver the promise of consent if they can become elected as the lesser of two evils with no objective regard to what government should be.
So I want to suggest that We the People aggregate some baseline expectations, department by department, issue by issue and then take off in tangential directions on which ideologies go which way on those baselines.
In other words, I'm thinking very seriously right now in turning Cobb into XRepublic, a collaborative enterprise of bottom up democracy.
