[Sir Napsalot]

Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from the book "The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless and the Middle Class Got Shafted," available from Viking.

[Brookhaven]

Revised title to reflect what they really mean:

GOP insider: Religion/The-Tea-Party/Conservatives/Fly-Over-Country/People-With-Principles destroyed my party

[goodnesswins]

And, he thinks it’s a BAD thing....????

[raygunfan]

more anti christian b.s. and standard strawmen to knock down.....

what an assklown.,...

[circlecity]

The left has been pushing this meme non-stop since the early 80’s with the emergence of the Christian Moral Majority.

[Vigilanteman]

A veteran Republican???

A veteran Republican whom they refuse to name. Why? What did they do? Dig up Jacob Javits?

[Dr. Sivana]

And to promote his book, this good Republic soldier is going to the likes of Salon.

BTW, I am not sure why someone’s belief about dinosaur footprints should make a difference in a discussion about deficit spending, the role of government or even cultural morality issues. Maybe these types of pubbies can’t think clearly when they are too busy sneering.

[TexasRepublic]

“....all three of the GOP’s main tenets: wealth worship, war worship, and the permanent culture war.”

No agenda by the writer. Nope, none at all. /s

[Blado]

You should be so lucky, asshole.

[Cincinatus]

From the Amazon listing of his book:

Mike Lofgren spent twenty-eight years working in Congress, the last sixteen as a senior analyst on the House and Senate Budget committees, which gave him ringside seats on TARP, Hurricane Katrina disaster relief, debates on the Pentagon budget and the amazing antics of various deficit–reduction commissions. He holds two degrees in history and received a Fulbright scholarship. He lives in Washington, D.C.

That explains a lot....

[cripplecreek]

All around us now is a prevailing anti-intellectualism and hostility to science. Politicized religion is the sheet anchor of the dreary forty-year-old culture wars

What a load of crap. Look around FR and you'll see plenty of us religious FReepers as true lovers of science and discovery.

[Da Coyote]

That article is a bunch of bull-Obama.

[central_va]

My version:

GOP insider: Religion RINOs destroyed my party.

Fixed.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

A veteran Republican says the religious right has taken over, and turned his party into anti-intellectual nuts

"Thank you for agreeing to be interviewed this afternoon, Senator McCain."

[ScottinVA]

So we don’t get to know the name of this supposedly real-life, veteran Republican? Is this another Harry Reid propaganda action?

[freekitty]

I think he means cults.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

The call themselves republican without the slightest clue what republican means.

[JimRed]

GOP Insider Infil-traitor

[NohSpinZone]

Harry Reid, is this you?

[Boomer One]

Same guy who told Reid Romney hadn’t filed taxes for 10 years?

[Lancey Howard]

If it wasn’t for them stinking religious nuts, the Republicans could have long ago joined the Democrats in embracing communism.