There was time I was a registered Republican. I switched in 2004 to Independent. I did so because the Republican party lost it’s way by incorporating the Christian-right-wing-nuts into the party years earlier. During the Dubya years war expenses were hidden, the Patriot Act was passed which eroded our freedoms, and the Republicans, in general, became the party of NO!
Here we are nearly 8 years later. The Republicans are still lost;
- They have tried to appease the Tea Party by incorporating them into their ranks. While the initial message of the Tea party is good, the radical attitude diminishes the Republican party as a whole and dilutes the message. If they’re only going to worry about Tea party members, they are lost.
- Republican candidates for president are poor with few exceptions. Some are old losers (Barbour, Gingrich, Paul), at least one is a quitter (Palin), we now have a homophobe (Bachman) in the running, Americans are mormonophobes (Huntsman, Romney) so those candidates are losers by default.
I read today where president Obama has raised some 86 million from April to June this year. Combined (yep I mean a total of) 35.5 million was raised by ALL Republican candidates during the same period. Hello! Republicans!! Anyone home!!! Have the right-wing radicals (a.k.a.; Republicans) run out of money? Or has the party credibility finally tanked?
