The Republican Party is not the Party I joined over thirty years ago. At least not the party I thought I was joining. I didn’t know anything about “country club Republicans,” I just knew that I could no longer belong to the Democratic Party.
For the last eight years George W. Bush took the party into the liberal toilet. He wanted to be a “Compassionate Conservative.” I have no use for him or the Republicans in Congress who supported him and signed on to the Bailout.
i am still in the party and some of us are working hard to take it back from the so called moderates here. Maybe if we are successful it will be easier to think of myself as a Republican again. Right now I am conservative first and Republican second.
Skip, there were more liberals in the Republican thirty years ago than there are today.