re: #7 OhNoZombies!

It was absolutely a sad read. He’s addicted to an ideal the doesn’t exist in his former party, and they don’t want him.
Addiction is hard to overcome though.
At least he’s taken the first step in admitting there’s a problem.

It’s hard for me to tell in retrospect whether such party ever truly existed in the lifetimes of a substantial minority of the electorate. I have never and will never desire a government that is small enough to be drowned in a bathtub, or a cabinet member that thinks the Rapture is so close that ecological conservation is unnecessary, or a party that explicitly panders to the baser elements of the southern evangelical worldview.

I know they keep removing components of the costume. I’m not sure how much the wearer has changed underneath.