Olympia Snowe is the only Republican with the courage to admit this.

[kentuck]

"And I believe that I reflect those views and I haven't changed as a Republican. I think more that my party has changed."

My! Oh, My! How it has changed!

The Republican Party stands for nothing except that it is against the Democratic Party. For many, that appears to be enough. However, it is not worthy of a national political Party.

They rode the tax-cut horse as far as it would go and it dropped dead on them. But, in the interim, they left the nation with an unbearably huge debt and without any regulation or oversight. The Democrats were not without blame. They knew what the Republicans were doing was wrong but they did not have the spine or the will-power or the means to stop them.

So now, Senator Snowe "thinks" her Party has changed? She is to be commended for recognizing this obvious reality. It is unfortunate that the rest of her Party is still shackled to Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the usual right-wing loonies. They stand for nothing.

[Zoeisright]

1. Yeah, that tax-cut horse not only dropped dead on them, it dropped dead on us.

And almost crushed this country.

[HopeHoops]

3. And it fell in the drinking water pond and decayed.

The GOP has become a disease.

[Zoeisright]

7. I like it.

We certainly are being poisoned by them.

[FSogol]

2. K & R n/t

[LeftinOH]

4. She represents what the nouveau-right considers the 'liberal-wing' of the Republican party;

they are convinced that the so-called 'liberal-wing' of the Relublican party cost them the 2008 Presidential election. They are, of course, wrong.

[Jennicut]

9. Yes, the neocon mistakes cost them the election. The stench of W. was too strong to overcome.

There used to be lots of liberal Rethugs, especially in New England, but Snowe and Collins are the last of them.

[Mopar151]

11. I miss 'em

Main Street Republicans - they were at least civil, and provided a good counterpoint to Willy Loeb's Union Leader. Then Mel Thompson showed up, dragging the Birchers and their ilk toward the smell of the primary.

[Jennicut]

14. Yes...Lincoln Chafee was one of them in Rhode Island.

He seems a decent guy.
The Dems actually won back those seats which is a good thing but the Repub party suffers from not having a more moderate voices.

[alsame]

5. During the Reagan years, my father said

"in 20 years, the lunatics will be running the Republican party" - he was right.

[unblock]

8. read pat brown's 1976 book, "ronald reagan: political chameleon"

he wrote it when reagan was running for the republican nomination against the republican president, gerald ford.
the primary was close enough that it wasn't decided until the convention itself.

pat brown (who reagan had unseated as governor of california) understood reagan very well and predicted that it would be a disaster if he ever became president.

very precient for 1976.

[alsame]

12. I never heard of that book, thanks for the suggestion. Having lived

through those horrible Reagan years, I'm sure I will appreciate the foresight of Pat Brown.

[Barack_America]

6. Really? Looks the same to me.

[WI_DEM]

13. Except in the 60's it was dixiecrats or rather southern democrats who dominated the south

but many of them did eventually become republicans. The truth is that back in the 60's and early 70's there were many liberal/moderate republicans like Jacob Javits, Nelson Rockefeller, Lowell Weicker, Margaret Chase Smith, Edward Brooke, John Heinz and others. She is correct as the Reagan revolution took over the GOP dumped its moderates. She should leave the party if she feels this way.

[Barack_America]

15. Good point.

Our party essentially sank their party by unloading our trash on them.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. Come to the Light, Olympia.....................

The Republican Party is lost to you. Search your feelings. You know this to be true.

I'd want us to take her if it meant her voting record might improve somewhat. If she were with us she might be able to vote more progressively than her current *leadership* allows her to. :shrug:

[MemeSmith]

16. They stand for nothing

And it was the right wing fundamentalists who asserted that when you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.

Cute line.

For myself, I would say that they stand for nothing, so they will fall.

[joeybee12]

17. I'm sorry, I've heard this one too many times from her...either s**t or

get off the pot, Olympia..stop triangulating your ideas and beliefs.

[Lorien]

18. To be fair, I'm not sure what the Democratic party seems to stand for either

"Tax cuts for the rich" seems to be the driving idea behind the GOP, but what's the driving idea behind the Democratic party these days? Our reps are pro war, pro gun, anti-school funding, anti-environment, pro corporate power, anti worker, anti equal rights...except for that tiny minority of Kucinich and handful of others on the Left. Are we just the "mostly not for huge tax cuts for the rich party"? Both parties have changed. As Bill Maher put it; "The Left has moved to the Right and the Right has moved into a mental hospital."