Today's Republican Party

As a former Republican - in fact, my entire family used to be Republicans - it is sad to see what the party has become. It is hard to find appropriate words to describe the party's descent into something almost unrecognizable from what it once was, but Bob Felton at Civil Commotion comes pretty close to an apt description:

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The Republican Party’s problem today is that it has become the political arm of religious fundamentalists, overall the most poorly educated, envious, malicious voting bloc in the electorate, and a historic ass-whumping thanks to the insane Palin selection is bound to force a re-consideration of Bush/Rove’s ill-considered marriage-of-convenience to Dobson et. al.

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I truly believe that only a series of disastrous losses at the polls will set the stage for a rebirth of a rational conservatism.