Reply #7: I've heard of 'em

[ldoolin]

REP is mostly made up of the dwindling liberal/Ripon Society wing of the Republicans, the sort who used to be found in significant numbers in the Sierra Club and Zero Population Growth. Dan Evans, Mark Hatfield, Paul McCloskey, Jim Jeffords types.

REP is a good group and very solid on environmental issues. The Republican Party has been taken over by religious right nuts, defense spending nuts, black helicopter nuts, Freepers, and libertarian voodoo economics think tank wonks. But can we drop the blind partisanship and maybe admit that there can be such a thing as a liberal Republican, and that liberal Republicans should be encouraged and supported in taking back their party?

On edit: REP and like minded Republicans, and also blue collar union members of the sort who hunt and own guns, are exactly the kind of swing voters who are most likely to cross over and help us win in November. We should be speaking to those issues (environment, union members, etc.) instead of trying to woo those who have no intention of voting for us with pro-war or social conservative issues.