A Victory for School choice in LA

I'd always seen the opening for Republicans to rally minoriy support via the school choice/charter school issue but i never thought it would happen. I thought the parents would be too disintrested, I didn't think there was anything but left wing community organizers in the ghettos. It's not perefect but it's a hell of an improvement, the almost entirely black and hispanic mothers came out to defeat the teachers union and bring more choices and charters to the LA unified school district (one of America's worst):

http://www.youtube.com/user/ReasonTV#p/u/36/5V3nRmJz5Ok

It's a great video because as you can see the only people who came out to speak against more school choice where the teachers union while all the actual parents came out for more choice. It illustratous the divide students education vs. the teachers Unions intrests. The Democrats who are the supposed defenders of children as the vulnerables they are, support the Teachers unions and the Republicans support the students.
I hope someone in the GOP is aware of this victory for school choice in LA, for it indicates that the GOP needs to abandon it's pussyfooting and reclaim the mantle of school choice. It's one of the best arguments the right has. However when we let it fall by the wayside when we select a Bush or a McCain or a Palin. "No Child Left Behind" is so dumb and let's Democrats do what they should never be able to do which is beat Republicans on education. We should be trouncing the left on education but because we abandon school choice in favor of adopting the left's view of education which is no school choice and focus on the worst students and impose fake standards we can't talk about what a failure the public school monopoly has been for so long. Bush couldn't talk about how all the extra money we've poured into public schools has resulted in nothing except lower scores because he wanted higher funding. Republicans need to say it loud and proud: we have tried the public school monopoly for 50 years, we've more doubled funding of schools and the scores have gotten worse, charter schools ave delivered better results at half the price of public schools, it's clear the problem isn't lack of money but lack of compeition. But even if the public schools weren't so horrendous, this is America, parents desereve to send there children to the school best suited for there child. The public schools have no price for failure and thus they don't improve, they don't really ever listen to parents, they don't evolve, grow more efficient and innovative, they don't cause they don't hve to, there jobs are essentially safe forever unlike any other business a public school that does a scandalous job does not fail because the chidlren can't leave for better schools.

"No Child Left Behind" is just like the Bush doctrine for the GOP, they're both hugely un-conservative, if not downright liberal policys. They are also similiar it that they both squander two great oppurtinitys for conservatives in the areas of education and foreign policy (namely the great school choice arguing and on the foreign policy front, being the party of national intrest and prudent restraint from policing the world). They are both productive of a conservative imposter and a dim wit who couldn't, it seems, think seriously about issues. The worst part is that, republicans a intensly loyal bunch couldn't help but stay loyal to Bush far too long, some still are mindless doing so today. They got behind his liberal foreign and educational policy and now are in limbo, not sure wheather to drop the charade and speak the conservative truth about the need to leave pointless wars of charity in Iraq and Afganistan and the imperavtive to end "No Child Left Behind" and grant parents the right of choice. But like sheep so many Republicans go on FOX and denounce the President not for being to hawkish about a pointless war not in our intrests but denounce him for not wanting to stay another 5 years in wars we don't have the money to fight. The Republicans have a real oppyurtinity as the LA victory for choice shows on school choice and even larger opening for gains if they become once again the party of restraint and national intrest on foreign policy rather than the default hawkish party that possesos liberal wilsonian dreams of a world democratic revoultion by war. The Republicans need to drop "The war on terror" phrase too. The worst scenario i think possible besides the GOP picking Palin in 2012 is the possibility that the GOP pick a Rudy Giullani type who thinks the countrys still in 2002 and only talks about "the war on terror" and his "faith". The Repiublican need to wake up and realize the American people don't wnat to hear of terrorism more than health care and other issues. And they are correct as well, cause terrorism is low on the list of issues facing us. It's been nearly a decade since 9/11 and we haven't been hit.