[sailaway21]

You were doing great there, Jim. Making a lot of sense and really layin' to coals on Lefty. Right up until you got to that last sentence. I'm not sure who you've been listening to but, whomever it is has yet to explain how those radical right wing religious types have been unable to install any of their agenda for all the taking down the river they've don to the GOP. Likewise those capitalists without conscience. Everybody knows they're all over, we just cannot name one.

The GOP lost it's way because it forgot what it's core principles are and started acting like the Democrat party. I'd offer the prescription drug benefit plan and no child left behind as examples of wasteful spending though there are innumerable more. I think that you'll find that an objective viewing of the Republican party as it currently stands is not distasteful for your above cited reasons, unless it was all along, but for reasons more similar to what I've mentioned.

And you might pause for a moment, only a moment is required, and give thanks that "some evangelical funnymentalist right wing Republican" was in the office of the presidency and had enough congressional support to confirm the last two Supreme Court justices or you might have found that the DC-gun ownership decision would have gone radically differently, resulting in DC gun policies coming to neighborhoods near us.

Oherwise, a fine diagnosis of liberalism's intolerance and close mindedness.