Here’s something we don’t hear every day in Washington: Ronald Reagan‘s dead, get over it. That’s a blunt paraphrase about conservatives and GOP traditionalists who want to relive the good old days from a senior Republican senator, speaking on background. “Ronald Reagan ran in the 1970s. That was a long time ago,” says the senator, a member of the GOP message team. His point: The party has to reach past its traditional base and especially to younger and Hispanic voters. “It’s about survival,” he tells us.

Oh, that is SO going to piss off Mister Liberty Girl.

Senator, ALL of you are dead.  Dead in the brain, dead in the heart, dead in the soul.  Is it any wonder conservatives and near-conservatives (like the Liberty Family here) lionize Reagan?  He’s the last one of you to show any guts, to have any vision whatsoever for the future.  You speak of “survival”…that is truly your guiding star at this point.  Not interested in principles or core values, just keep that gravy train rolling, RAWHIDE!

I’m done with the lot of you.  If any of you truly care about the Republican party’s survival, we won’t see snippet one of your pallid, wizened faces in the next Presidential cycle.  It will instead be represented by the firebrands, the Palins and the Jindals.  The people who still have hope and dreams for the future.  Citizens, we can still have the Shining City that Reagan envisioned, but we need to be MUCH more careful to whom we entrust its stewardship.