Erick Erickson's Brilliant Column

Erick Erickson is a Conservative Republican. He runs the highly regarded Red State Blog. Few people would expect Erick Erickson to be calling out his fellow Republicans to be more respectful of the President.

On January 20th in a column Mr. Erickson wrote his Congratulations to the President on his recent inauguration. In doing so he advised that when he had done the same on Twitter on Monday he had received responses that embarrassed him and should embarrass the party that he loves.

Erickson goes on to write that he does not in anyway agree with the President and his plans for America. He believes that they will not produce the results the President intends. He also goes on, however, to advise that he does not think the President is doing what he does maliciously, he does not think the President is treasonous, he does not hate him, in short he thinks that the President is a good man with whom he simply disagrees.

If only it could be so simple. Erickson states that he in fact is more outraged by his own party and their own outrageous behavior. He states that the party needs to sell something that they believe in, to be a party of ideas again. In short they need to be the party of that Americans can believe in.

I doubt that Erick Erickson and I would ever agree with each other in regards to many things political. I salute him however for understanding and stating that those on the extreme in his party and mine are the ones causing permanent damage to our country. Calling out " outrage pimps" on both sides of the aisle Erickson has done a great service, the question is of course will anyone listen.