When you finally get that delayed report, please post the link here on Free Republic and ping us/me, thanks.
Re republicans being cowards. My wife and I have noticed a lot of repubies after retirement talking and acting like liberals.
My SIL in the midwest noted the same thing back there. She confronted a few of these flippers this past year.
According to her, they just get tired to defending conservatism in retirement communities and neighborhoods full of retired and know it all liberals, and constant challenging by the greens and other lefty bsers.
Solzhenitsyn: Decline of the West
Monday, Jun. 19, 1978
[excerpt] A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and of course in the United Nations. Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?