The paranoia infesting the Republican Party is eating away at them like a cancer

There was a time when Bob Dole represented the conservative wing of the Republican Party. Nowadays he’s so far away from the conservative wing of his party that it could fill a contiinent

I remember reading that Barry Goldwater remarked to Bob Dole during the 1996 presidential election that he couldn’t believe that they were both considered moderates in the scale of ideology that the modern GOP had. And that was sixteen years ago. Goodness knows what they’d be considered today