"It is remarkable to see how relatively numerous in declining empires are the people capable of making the right diagnosis and preaching some sensible cure. It is no less remarkable, however, that wise utterances remain generally sterile, because, as Gonazles de Cellorigo forcefully put it while watching impotently the decline of Spain, "those who can, will not; and those who will, cannot." Carlo M. Cipolla: "The Decline of Empires"

 The Red Shift

    In the 1920's, Edwin Hubble, while studying the stars of distant galaxies, found that for some, their emission spectra had peaks at 411.54 nm, 435.50 nm, 487.75 nm, and 658.47 nm. Hubble knew that these wavelengths did not correspond to any known element and that it was not likely that a combination of other elements or molecules was responsible. He did notice that these spectral lines corresponded to hydrogen's emission spectra except that they were all 0.0033 percent longer in wavelength than they should have been for a hydrogen spectra. Hubble deduced that this red-shift must be because of a Doppler effect. His calculations showed that these galaxies must be moving away from earth at 1 x 10⁶ m/s (one million meters per second)!  Courtesy PBS.org

    In 63 years of persistent and diligent effort, I have succeeded only once in converting a liberal Democrat into a conservative Republican. I had the privilege of watching it once in medical school when a classmate figured it out based only on his own life experiences. Democrats are the problem and will not be any part of the solution. The Gokhale-Smetters clock (the $45 Trillion excess of the projected payments for Social Security and Medicare required by present law over the amount of projected revenue from taxes) precludes educational reforms that would require generations to bring about effective results. Self-evident, but worth repeating in order to avoid the ever-present temptation of considering compromises; limiting, and then ending socialism requires that the Democrats and other "professional" politicians be defeated.

    No third party, not even one with Ronald Reagan as their standard bearer, could form a governing Congressional coalition capable of defeating the Democrats before the Gokhale-Smetters clock runs out. Only Republicans can defeat enough Democrats to end socialism. It is the Republican Party that we are going to divide and conquer. Instead of the big tent that welcomes Rockefeller Republicans and other RINO's, Republicans not willing to adopt the Contract with Congress are going to become the target of the Reagan Wing of the Republican Party. Not content to simply push the RINO's overboard, the Reagan Wing will be the sharks in the water looking for blood.

    Nature abhors a vacuum and moderates lacking conviction love company. We will talk more about our Reagan Wing Republicans in a moment, but for now consider them analogous to the 1994 Republican Freshmen. The first time one of our Reagan Wing Republicans defeats a targeted RINO, surviving RINO's will break into a cold sweat. The second RINO defeated by the Reagan Wing will create a vacuum between conservative Republicans and moderates. As long as the sharks are circling, it will be the moderates that shift quickly to the right. The task of the Reagan Wing is to move the entire Republican Party substantially to the right. As long as there is blood in the water, it will not take the defeat of many moderates to make a major difference. The first movement of the Reagan Wing's Red Shift will be to make the Red States even redder. Let's take a closer look at the Reagan Wing.