re: #2 allegro

This is excellent. The more open they get about their extreme, hateful, and ignorant views and policies, the more sane Republicans and independents will run.

Well, I can hope. Been doing that for a lot of years now.

We definitely do need more sane Republicans running. Unfortunately it seems to me, we’ve seen the total opposite happen in many cases. Look at Dick Lugar in Indiana being beaten in a primary by a man who said his idea of bipartisanship was the Democrats doing what the Republicans want to do. I also look more locally and see who the Republicans have ran for Congress after having a moderate Republican in office for over 10 years. Instead of a thoughtful and reasonable moderate, they run an extreme so-con. And the state GOP thought it just grand to give George Allen, a man whose presidential aspirations ended on a racial slur another shot at being in the Senate. I really want the GOP to evolve but they’ve if anything have devolved these past four years and that’s a shame because as much as I dislike the Republican Party, I do want a reasonable opposition.