[cradle of freedom]

It is not your father's Democrat party, that's for sure. The Democratic Party for all its faults was at one time pro-life but then at that time nobody believed that abortion, which as a crime, would become a highly-valued civil right. I can still hear Ted Kennedy bellowing away—”I will support a woman's right to choose!”.

Shame on the millions of Catholics and others who continued to support the party of abortion for forty years.

[fwdude]

It is not your father's Democrat party, that's for sure.

There are a lot of old-time Roosevelt Democrats who didn't get the memo. I had a Democratic landlord who was utterly blind to the horrific corruption.

[Jrabbit]

Amen

[CitizenUSA]

Ted Kennedy: “I will support a woman’s right to choose!”.

Even that once meant something different. At one time, the Democrats at least claimed to want to make abortion rare.

[Salvation]

Those dimocrats are NOT Catholics. They are CINOs.

[Morpheus2009]

I think Reagan leaving the Democrats was a good sign. They originally were very pro-states’ rights, especially given the policies which they opposed during the Reconstruction Era, where you initially started off with appointed officials in much of the Southern government. States’ Rights and his own conviction against a fully-centralized healthcare was among Reagan’s biggest reasons for changing over to Republican, and trying to run against candidates such as Ford for nominations.