Ronald Reagan was the first major Democrat to leave the party. The more I know about the man the more I admire his insight.
Zell Miller and Ed Koch are the latest to sound the alarm.
You want to see the soul of an organization, look at the top. Everything flows from there. If the top lacks integrity, the whole gets corrupted. The top of the Democrat party is represented by McAwful and Clinton.
From Reagan's "A Time for Choosing":
Last February 19th at the University of Minnesota, Norman Thomas, six-times candidate for President on the Socialist Party ticket, said, "If Barry Goldwater became President, he would stop the advance of socialism in the United States." I think that's exactly what he will do.
But as a former Democrat, I can tell you Norman Thomas isn't the only man who has drawn this parallel to socialism with the present administration, because back in 1936, Mr. Democrat himself, Al Smith, the great American, came before the American people and charged that the leadership of his Party was taking the Party of Jefferson, Jackson, and Cleveland down the road under the banners of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin. And he walked away from his Party, and he never returned til the day he died -- because to this day, the leadership of that Party has been taking that Party, that honorable Party, down the road in the image of the labor Socialist Party of England.