Reply #88: Thank you -- and I believe you may have a good point there

[Time for change]

I just don't know.

My thought in pointing out the difference with Republicans was to make a "political" point -- and of course we need all the political points we can get.

Then I was quite surprised when an admitted Republican responded to this thread, objecting to my demonizing of Republicans, and stating that most "real" Republicans do share these values. My response is in post # 35 of this thread.

I pointed out that the vast majority of the Republican leadership of this country does not share these values. So given that, how can one think of themselves as a Republican if they don't share the values of the Republican leadership?

Tough question.

But you may be right. We certainly don't want to be divisive -- but we do need to win some more elections, so it might not be a bad idea to point out the actual values of the Republicans that we run against.