Stafford: Why I gave up on being a Republican

[XanaDUer]

SNIP - Today, however, I am a registered Republican no longer.

I came to the decision to leave the GOP not with a heavy heart, but with a broken one.

As a local GOP official after President Obama's election, I had a front-row seat as it became infected by a dangerous and virulent form of political rabies.

In the grip of this contagion, the Republican Party has come unhinged. Its fevered hallucinations involve threats from imaginary communists and socialists who, seemingly, lurk around every corner. Climate change- a reality recognized by every single significant scientific body and academy in the world- is a liberal conspiracy conjured up by Al Gore and other leftists who want to destroy America. Large numbers of Republicans- the notorious birthers- believe that the President was not born in the United States. Even worse, few figures in the GOP have the courage to confront them.

More at link:

http://www.nj.com/hudson/voices/index.ssf/2012/06/stafford_why_i_gave_up_on_bein.html

[XanaDUer]

1. kick nt

[TheKentuckian]

2. I'm glad the writer and assumably other like him are kind of seeing the light

I am not interested in assimilating any more Reaganites and bending our party into the evil and greedy but less stupid and brazen one they are nostalgic for.

Feel free to vote for Democrats or sit your asses home but they need to quit coming over the fence thinking they get to drive and increasing the Turd Way base.