Perhaps you’re right. I don’t see ANY party as deserving of compliments, and not just the two major ones. Since I have disagreements with all of them on some points, then it’s simply an issue of voting for the Lesser of Two Evils. (Hmm, seems we’ve heard about that one before.)
Although I can name several politicians that I personally have good things to say (in both Parties, actually), that is not the same as speaking favorably about the Party, itself. Since the best “compliment” I can offer is damning with faint praise, I’ll withdraw my comments.
I believe that they have a vision of personal responsibility that is sorely lacking in the Democratic party. While it’s too easy to simply say “work hard, pull yourself up by your bootstraps,” I think their stressing of taking your own action resonates more than “it’s not your fault; it’s your environment.”
Both are overly simplistic, to be sure, but the value of hard work and personal responsibility seems to me to be often lost in liberal rhetoric.
I praise Mitt Romney for implementing Universal Healthcare in Massachussets.
Lincoln Chaffee for being the only Republican to vote against going to war in Iraq.
I can praise individual Republicans for bucking their party, but I’m finding it next to impossible to praise any of the positions held by the party as a whole.