The Future is Cao

[Meeker]

The GOP attempting to portray themselves as the part of ethics would be about as effective as Sheila Jackson Lee attempting to portray herself as a white male.

[Meeker]

It's a fundamentally flawed strategy. Basing your party on policies are things you can always pivot back to - tax cuts, smaller government, "moral" values. Basing it on something like ethics and reform is extremely dangerous. Inevitably there will be a big ethics scandal involving the party (thus is politics) and the entire perception is blown to bits.

Either party attempting to claim the moral high ground on ethics is doomed to have it bite them eventually.