Credit Debt Cures

If Republicans were really conservatives, why is Dave Ramsey not the head of the GOP?

Is it because living on no credit except your mortgage takes profit away from Capitalism?

Public Comments

1. The only credit I live on is my car payment. I rent. PS - Republicans are not conservatives.
2. I'm guessing that Dave Ramsay doesn't want to be head of the GOP. I mean, come on. Even Rush Limbaugh said that he wouldn't want to be in charge of the party that lost Congress one year and the White House the next. I guess it takes more guts to fix problems than to talk about them.
3. Dave Ramsey is a financial advisor, not a politician, and doesn't often get into politics. Sometimes, but not often. Why doesn't Olbermann head the Democratic Party? Because he is an agricultural journalist, not a politician. Get it? Got it. Good.
4. I don't live on credit. House is paid and cars are paid. The only thing I have left is student loans in the tune of $19,000 left to pay, but soon enough those will be paid too. I think actually Capitalism would be so much better without credit so readily available. People renting until they have a large enough down payment, or buying vehicles with cash, who would have thought? You would think that's blasphemy.
5. Who the @7%* is Dave Ramsey. and why should I even care?
6. Dave's too busy making a difference in people's lives to have the time for that job. But you raise an interesting point. In "The 5000-Year Leap" there is a passage that (summarized) says that liberal and conservative points of view are necessary for the successful operation of our republic. Liberals point out what "ought to be done" - but have little sense of how to manage resources to get it done - or what "doing it" might do to the Constitution. Conservatives, on the other hand - have the role of examining what "ought to be done" - to determine how, or if, it should be done without bankrupting the country or running roughshod over the Constitution. To that end, the Republican Party - which had laid claim to the "conservative" role in the debate - has over the last 8 years - and especially of the last 2 years of the Bush administration - has been AWOL! They abdicated their assigned role, leaving the liberals (of both parties) to spend like drunken sailors AND run amok OVER the Constitution. And the response of the Democratic Party? Nyah-nyah - you can't call us spenders if you spend like we do! So we're gonna spend, and call you hypocrites when you complain. Dave's principles would be an outstanding basis for a newly revived conservative movement - but there are doubts that the Republican party can be, or even deserves to be that party in the future.
7. First, Dave is not popular enough. And second, Dave couldn't take that kind of a cut in pay! He's making a fortune selling common sense to people who could get the same information at the library for free. Live within your means...Duh???!!!