I agree with David Brooks yet again. I hope that one day the GOP will recover from this cancer so that I can once again call it my political home.

To think that my parents were once Republicans because they could not tolerate the ignorance of the conservative southern segregationist Democrats.

My how times have changed.

And to think that I, a limited government (government where it makes sense and less where it doesn't), pro-market, fiscal conservative who lambasted "knee-jerk" liberals as a 16 year-old Reagan supporter would find more affinity with the Democrats is a shocker.

But I believe foremost in ideas and education, in heightening access according to ability and in _open_ government so that the people know what it is doing. And am repelled by demagoguery and fear based manipulation of people. I did not leave the GOP, it left me.

oh boy, do I agree with you guys!

The Republican party has become a party of ideology rather than a party of ideas and ideals. In this, they are acting like any other totalitarian gang.

Completely agree Jorjor

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