Richard Haass quits GOP after 40 years

[Tanuki]

Link to tweet

"I changed my registration to "no party affiliation" after 40 years. I worked for Reagan & Bush 41 & 43. But today’s Rep Party no longer embraces the policies & principles that led me to join it. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, I didn’t leave the Republican Party; the Party left me."



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_N._Haass

"Richard Nathan Haass (born July 28, 1951) is an American diplomat. He has been president of the Council on Foreign Relations since July 2003, prior to which he was Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State and a close advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell."...(more)

[Karadeniz]

1. Never too old to grow!

[olegramps]

10. Fuck him and the horse he rode in on. They have been rotten to the core for over forty years.

Just how many of these scumbags will quit the party, but will cast their vote for the Republican vermine in the next election?

[Escurumbele]

15. You are correct...I have to think this is a calculated move on his part

Hypocrites, all of them, no principles.

[malaise]

16. THIS

[Poiuyt]

2. How many prominent Republicans have changed party affiliation due to Trumpism?

[c-rational]

3. It took him this long, well yippee.

[RainCaster]

4. Let's see some current Senators do this!

I'm tired of Republicans who can't grow a spine until they are out of office.

[North Shore Chicago]

5. His eyes are now open!

Welcome aboard the not crazy train sir.

[Mr.Bill]

6. I know it won't happen, but

maybe if about 50-100 Congressional reps. would change parties, maybe these criminals in the Senate would get the message.

[ananda]

7. Actually the party does embrace those principles and policies...

just more openly and not coded.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. To my ear, his ideas are very antiquated.

He was on MorJoe last week talking about the terrible effects of all this stim, basically inflation, and therefore less stim. But inflation won't happen until payrolls are full again, and that's not going to happen for many years.

[calimary]

9. Well well well. Time will tell.

[Hekate]

11. The more prominent Repubs who go public, the better. This is good. nt

[Hortensis]

17. Yes. Trying to hasten the self destruction he'd spent years

waiiting/hoping to reverse .

[matt819]

12. And my response to these people is. . .

What was it about the republican party that you liked?

Look at the numbers. GDP growth is higher under Democratic presidents. Trickle down economics have bee proven to be a myth, or, as I like to put it, a lie. Deficits are lower under Democratic presidents. Democratic administrations over the last forty years have enacted policies for a cleaner environment, better health care, consumer safety (financial and physical), and more. If anyone asked me what the republican party stood for, I would say it was tax cuts for the rich. And the erosion of the wall between church and state. Oh, and endless wars. Were you really proud of that record? Did those things make you feel all warm and fuzzy?

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to see people leave the republican party in droves. The more, the better. But these kinds of self-serving public statements make me sick.

[Hortensis]

18. Half of all humanity leans conservative. In nations with

representative government, they must have representation.

Continuing membership in and fighting from within America's only organized conservative party does not mean endorsement of the extremism and corruption that took it over. Your feeling sick can be quickly cured by putting yourself in the place of decent conservatives like Haas who were helpless to stop what was happening on the right in spite of all their efforts. Haas's public statements have always been proof that he does not.

Haas obviously thinks his efforts will now be better served by this denunciation, and you're right in one thing: it doesn't mark any change in his beliefs.

[paleotn]

13. What took him so long?

[hibbing]

14. Reagan just whispered the quiet parts out loud instead of shouting them like Trumpster n/t