I am not really having any fun attacking my old friends — but I don’t know how else to respond when people call decent men like Jim Webb a pervert for no other reason than to win an election. I don’t know how to deal with people who think savaging a man with Parkinson’s for electoral gain is appropriate election-year discourse. I don’t know how to react to people who think that calling anyone who disagrees with them on Iraq a “terrorist-enabler” than to swing back. I don’t know how to react to people who think that media reports of party hacks in the administration overruling scientists on issues like global warming, endangered species, intelligent design, prescription drugs, etc., are signs of ... liberal media bias.-John Cole, now a former Republican, summing up the party in its current incarnation.
It really isn't the party of Dwight Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan anymore is it? And it certainly ain't the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln. Each of those gentlemen are probably rolling over in their graves at the Fascist turn their beloved party has taken.
