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How's the saying go?
I didn't leave the Republican party. The Republican party left me.
A bit whacky these days, aren't they?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/opinion/sunday/friedman-we-need-a-second-party.html
"There's a reason for that: The party has let itself become the captive of conflicting ideological bases: anti-abortion advocates, anti-immigration activists, social conservatives worried about the sanctity of marriage, libertarians who want to shrink government and anti-tax advocates who want to drown government in a bathtub."
"Sorry, but you can't address the great challenges America faces today with that incoherent mix of hardened positions."
"But when all the Republican candidates last year said they would not accept a deal with Democrats that involved even $1 in tax increases in return for $10 in spending cuts, the GOP cut itself off from reality. It became a radical party, not a conservative one."
"Would somebody please restore our second party? The country is starved for a grown-up debate."
Grown-up indeed.
I didn't leave the Republican party. The Republican party left me.
A bit whacky these days, aren't they?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/opinion/sunday/friedman-we-need-a-second-party.html
"There's a reason for that: The party has let itself become the captive of conflicting ideological bases: anti-abortion advocates, anti-immigration activists, social conservatives worried about the sanctity of marriage, libertarians who want to shrink government and anti-tax advocates who want to drown government in a bathtub."
"Sorry, but you can't address the great challenges America faces today with that incoherent mix of hardened positions."
"But when all the Republican candidates last year said they would not accept a deal with Democrats that involved even $1 in tax increases in return for $10 in spending cuts, the GOP cut itself off from reality. It became a radical party, not a conservative one."
"Would somebody please restore our second party? The country is starved for a grown-up debate."
Grown-up indeed.