re: #338 HappyWarrior

What the GOP has done all my life is us versus them politics. Whether it was the crap pulled on Dukakis or the recent shit on HRC.

I’m old enough that I can’t say “all my life” about such things.

I remember when the GOP had a great many admirable policy positions, honorable officials, etc. There was always a wingnut faction, but they were just one of the factions. It makes me cry to realize what we lost.

Earl Warren was a Republican governor, well within the Republican mainstream of his time. The first woman ever elected to Senate in her own name (not a widow filling hub’s seat) was the Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine — best known for being the first Senator to speak out against the McCarthy hearings. Pete McClosky. Gerald Ford. Nelson Rockefeller. Jacob Javits.

T Roosevelt and Eisenhower are spinning in their graves that such Republicans no longer exist.