I am watching Hairball, and Chrissy had on Alan Simpson, supposedly a REpublican, ex-senator...
He just told Chrissy that if President Bush nominates a conservative nominee "that the right wing" would approve of, he/she won't have a chance of getting it...
But, he said, if President Bush picks a "moderate conservative that "rational REpublicans and religious people" would like, then he has a much better chance...
Then, he said that he had been given trouble as a Republican because he is pro-choice, and pro-gay/lesbian full rights...and that President Bush would have a hard time having a nominee confirmed unless that nominee is not so conservative on social issues....
Okay, folks, I don't know about ya'll, but Simpson just put me in the right-wing irrational Republican party...
I have had a fair amount of respect for Simpson over the years. My limited exposure to him had me fooled.
I am baffled how these folks can destroy any respect you had for them in less than two sentences.
What a shame. At least I know this guy for what he is now.
Ala Simpson's father, the late Governor and Senator Milward Simpson, voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The son, Alan Kooi Simpson, has been moving left over the years to atone for his father's embarrassing vote in 1964.