text: Representative Buck:  You describe the "old" Republican Party in a manner that probably 80% of the Nation could get behind.  If those values are truly important -- and I agree they are -- why doesn't the Republican Party embrace them and ditch the climate change denials, social and family value issues, anti-LGTB, Bible-thumping, etc.   In other words, get on-board with the issues that truly imperil our nation, and leave to state and local governments, churches and nonprofits the remaining "culture war" issues.   Probably too late for the Republican Party, but the new political party that replaces it could really take off if it left the culture war to play out among the people and stuck with the one thing that government does best:   governing.