Arianna posts at the DFA blog about her disillisionment with the GOP.

[madfloridian]

She posts each week, and she actually reads the comments.

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/
From the Belly of the Beast.

SNIP...."It was great reading the comments to my first blog post, and I'd like to respond to one comment that was echoed by a few others. It came from Elly in MD who asked me if I had any advice about how to deal with the Republican opposition (since I "lived in the belly of the beast as an insider Republican").

SNIP..."I believed just as deeply in the need for social responsibility during my Republican days as I believe in it now. But these days I draw very different conclusions from that basic principle. The reason is very simple. The social challenge I issued that morning during my speech, a gauntlet I kept throwing down until my final disillusionment with the Grand Old Party, was never taken up. The hope and expectation that people would roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty to solve social problems at the local level was never fully realized. There were never enough volunteers, never enough donations, never enough model partnerships and pilot projects set up to prove what we conservatives claimed: that we could solve America's ills without "big government."END SNIP

[Servo300]

1. she comes across to me as a bit goofy.... n/t

[madfloridian]

3. I think you are wrong.

I don't share all her views, but she attempted to answer this quite fairly. She came across as intelligent.

[k in IA]

2. Thanks, madfloridian.

[indigobusiness]

4. She is lucid, playfull and articulate..

She can laugh at herself...proof she is no repug. Certainly not "goofy".