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October 20, 2004
This is not your father's Republican Party
Former New Hampshire US Senator Bob Smith and former South Dakota US Representative Bill Janklow speak out against their party's dirty tricks:
Concord Monitor: Phone-jamming was an outrage
KELOLAND.COM: Janklow Criticizes GOP Vote Effort
From Bob Smith's Concord Monitor piece:
This is a far cry from the party of Lincoln that proudly and correctly stood on principle to outlaw slavery. It is a far cry from the party of great and principled statesmen like Mel Thomson, Norris Cotton, Ronald Reagan, Dwight Eisenhower and Teddy Roosevelt. What a contrast between those great Republicans and current party leaders, who refuse to speak out against this despicable action by pathetic political hacks.
While Nixon was decidedly not a great and principled statesman (and rightly excluded from the list), even he was cut from a very different fabric than the Republicans of contemporary times. Starting with Goldwater, continuing with Gingrich, and culminating in the unholy terror that is the Bush White House, the wingnut wing of the Republican Party has seized complete control of the GOP. But how deep does this control go? Are the Republicans lost forever to the religious fundamentalists and other extreme ideological groups? What did happen to the party of Lincoln and Roosevelt and Eisenhower? Why hasn't the fringe been left to rot on the fringe?
Posted by glyphic at October 20, 2004 01:41 AM