As for “getting back to our values” …. the vast majority of GOP values are just fine.

Here are a few —

*Low, non-confiscatory taxes so businesses can grow:

*School choice, vouchers to give parents options:

*Standardized testing — (Dems strenuously oppose this. They want teachers, i.e. unions, to have the final say over whether a child has been sufficiently “taught” or whether an individual teacher is competent)

*Respect for life of unborn babies and elderly (funny how it’s always Democrats and leftists who advocate euthanasia for the frail and infirm, and Democrats who would leave a botched abortion baby die in the trash can)

*Respect for Judeo-Christian focused institutions, including faith-based charities which were shunned by Democrats the past 40 years in lieu of ‘community organizers’ like Obama.

*Workfare — as opposed to welfare, which the Democrats are AGAIN demanding.

*No homo education “mainstreaming” and/or sex education for 2nd graders:

*USA interests first, not those of the sharia-dominated UN (Obama vows to put USA “in line” with UN thinking. Check out his statements)

*Pre-emptive defense of America (seems to have worked pretty well since the 9/11 shock)

*right to vote PRIVATELY — (Obama has vowed to pass this anti Constitutional union-backed law that would force workers to VOTE IN PUBLIC !!!! Is there anything more un-American than this??) (Obama also vowed to change law to allow unions the “right” to force their way into small family-owned businesses of less than 10 workers)

*Privacy rights for private citizens: A half dozen Ohio DEMOCRATS accessed govt computers to dig up information on private citizen Joe-the-Plumber, and then leaked it to the media. Democrat leaders just shruged! Is THIS the new Democrat “values” system — investigate those who don’t think correctly.

*Energy independence — allow American companies to use American workers to develop American resources, which are abundant and safe. Democrats have opposed offshore, onshore, around-shore, and any other shore drilling the past 40 years. (OK, in fairness, GHWB did sign the ban of offshore drilling, but the GOP has since rejected that pandering policy. Look what happened to oil prices since THE VERY DAY Pres. Bush announced the lifting of punitive drilling laws in America)