"We changed. Not the way this piece says, (this troll piece) but we're not our Daddy's Republican party anymore."
I agree. We're not even a shell of "our Daddy's Republican party anymore." But you seem to approve of the changes.
Would you care to offer a defense of, say, the Medicare drug bill bloodletting from the new and improved republican perspective?
Or maybe the current 1,632-page, $388-billion omnibus bill, with its oinking outlays for such pressing matters as:
the Wild American Shrimp Initiative
"emergency" extension of the Mississippi state duck hunting season,
floriculture research in Hawaii
grasshopper research in Alaska
the Alaskan "minerals at risk" program (combining the pointless, the mysterious, and the expensive in a single appropriation)
the Aleutian World War II National Historic Area
aquaculture research and marketing in West Virginia (the seafood capital of Appalachia!)
etc., etc., etc., etc.
I'd be really fascinated how the new and improved republican perspective justifies this nonsense.
Dems are a one trick pony. Their trick is fear.
Dems scare the old people saying Bush will destroy social security, they scare the blacks -- telling them conservatives are racist, they scare the rich, "intellectual" elites, saying "evangelicals" will take away their freedom to screw everything and everyone on the planet.
The powerful and corrupt don't want values of decency pushed down their throats. If they're hitting up on young girls, they want the ease of abortion -- a few dollars, no responsibility. Big liberal money is fighting for "play without pay": porn, creepy movies, exploitation of cheap immigrant labor etc.