[devane617]

There are huge articles in todays, Dallas Morning News about II, as well as another big article in today's Miami Hearld about giving drivers license ti II's.

Is the Republican party really this much out of touch?

[The_Victor]

Is the Republican party really this much out of touch?

There are just a lot of would-be democRATs who have joined the Republican party in the past ~10 years. For people like Strayhorn, it's about being on the winning team, not ideology. That's Texas politics though. 20 years ago it was the same situation in reverse for the democRATs.