From New West Blogs:

Politicos have been trying to figure out just where the Republican Party plans to get the surge for its resurgence. The Republicans have done their damndest to shed independent and Libertarian voters since 2001, ‘and what do they aim to replace them with?’ I ask you. Do the Neoconservatives represent a large enough voting bloc to give them control of the White House and Congress?

I came across Stephen Richer’s guest editorial “Republicans’ way forward is in the West” in the Oct. 16 edition of the Salt Lake Tribune. Richer is an editor for NewMajority.com, which has since changed its name to FrumForum.com, after David Frum, the Canadian/American conservative speech writer for George Bush who has debated Rush Limbaugh over the future of the Republican Party.

Richer offers a few instances of Utah’s politicians shifting toward the center and argues that the West’s more moderate Republicans should step up and take control of the party, for its own good.

I sent off a few questions to Richer and he was gracious enough to reply. I deeply disagree with some of his responses but I’m the guy sitting in the West watching the Republican Party blow itself up, not the one trying to resurgify it. So here’s what he had to say.

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