Are there any rational, decent Republicans left?

[Raven]

Serious question, not rhetoric. Growing up in the 50's and 60's, I was aware of a number of decent Republicans...Leverett Saltonstall, Ed Brooke, even George Romney. Civil men who really sought the best for the country. I might have disagreed with their politics but they were intelligent, decent and civil.

If this election goes the way I hope it will, the Republican Party will have some rebuilding to do. We need a healthy 2 party system in this country and if the Republican Party does not find its soul, the crazies will take it over.

Are there any decent Republican people out there?

[Tom Ripley]

1. I will list them:

[Raven]

2. Oh dear! :-(

[Cleita]

3. I know a couple, but they are voting for Obama, holding their noses, of course.

They don't like Romney.

[RagAss]

4. I knew one but he died.

[Brother Buzz]

5. Pete McCloskey

Back in the day, I could easily have voted for him had I lived in his district.

Oh wait, he's no longer a republican!

In the spring of 2007, McCloskey announced that he had changed his party affiliation to the Democratic Party. In an email and letter to the Tracy Press, McCloskey stressed that the "new brand of Republicanism" had finally led him to abandon the party that he had joined in 1948. He followed this up with an op-ed column in which he explained that "Disagreement (with party leadership) turned into disgust" and "I finally concluded that it was fraud for me to remain a member of this modern Republican Party", although it was a "decision not easily taken."

[gopiscrap]

6. I haven't met one since 1976

I was only 17 at the time and didn't realize I was speaking to a historical figure, I would have taken a snapshot!

[ColumbusLib]

7. Jon Huntsman, possibly?

Colbert interviewed him the other night, seems like Huntsman is much closer to being moderate than most Republicans these days. I would like to know what his reply meant when Colbert asked for his honest opinion of Romney, in Mandarin!

[marlakay]

8. I asked that today at work…we are all dems

and one of the guys said, they all turned into democrats and are the more conservative ones….

[Lone_Star_Dem]

9. I believe their radical extremest have pushed the decent Republican politicians out of office.

Some were voted out, but others have just decided to leave and "spend more time with their families." Which in this case translates to, "get away form the crazies."

If you meant people in general, I'm sure they're out there. People who don't pay attention to the issues and vote the party line simply because that's what they've always done. They're getting rarer and rarer though. Most have had to either embrace the hate, owned up to the fact that hate is really what their party believes in, or have taken to calling themselves Independents.