smorgas
1/16/2010 11:44:00 PM
On 16 Jan 2010 21:26:32 GMT, The Chief Instigator <patrick@io.com>
wrote:
>The Republicans were sane in the 1960s, but four and a half decades later,
>they've collectively drunk the purple Kool-Aid. I've voted Republican far
>more often than Democrat, but these days, I'd rather vote Libertarian. as
>the Rs and Ds are basically one party passing itself off as two.
THey were out of power (again) in congress caused by the excesses of
McCarthy.
To their credit--northern republicans sided with breakaway liberal
democrats (who got platform control) and initiated the Civil Rights
act.
To thieir discredit---to regain power--Nixon started recruiting those
disgruntled Southern conservattives and when Reagan rose to
power--allowed the religous reich to take over the Republican platform
committee.
That, is the prmary cause of the massive political rift we have today
Worse, are the rise of Loonytarians and Tea-hatters who conveniently
forget that their policies once sunk us by 1930.