It does appear surreal at times. Seemingly every issue (from small, Constitutional-based goverment to supporting traditional American values) that caused me to passionately gravitate and allign myself with the Republican Party back during the Reagan era has, in the past few years, been systematically squeezed out of the GOP, which has now morphed into some kind of amoral, big-tent, power-mad, ersatz Democrat Party.
Good grief, Karl Rove was actually out and about a few weeks ago promoting government subsidies for wind farms! Add to that “Republicans” on record who support hairbrained things from cap-and-trade to homo marriage, and a nominee who inflicted Romneycare on his state. The GOP has really turned rancid. I’m open to a third-party for the first time in my voting life. Never would have predicted this a few years ago.
Exactly. The party has left us.