From the "why in the world is this guy still a Republican" file ....

[eppur_se_muova]

I am not a Republican by accident. I am Republican in no small measure because without the GOP, I, my family and my race would still be enslaved in, at the very least, former Confederate states and potentially throughout all of what is modern day America.

I am Republican in large part because I believe in small “c” conservative principles, something that until quite recently was the unifying element of the party. I believe in truth. I believe in Christian morality. I believe the rule of law should apply to everyone.

I am also Republican because it was duly-elected Democratic leaders who repeatedly denied my father access to the educational opportunity he had every right to as a tax paying citizen of the state in which he lived. And it was a Democrat who shot and nearly killed him as he quietly marched down a public road to encourage blacks to register to vote.

Without hesitation, I acknowledge it was a Democratic president who deployed 54,000 U.S. troops and a large contingent of U.S. Marshals to ensure Dad was given access to the school of his choice. Furthermore, I will admit that over the last generation, the Democratic Party has become far more supportive of minority issues than today’s GOP. The current attack on minority voting rights by Republicans serves as a glaring example of just how far from our original charter the GOP has drifted.
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While I am a Republican, those who stood by while Mitch McConnell denied a duly elected president the right to appoint a Supreme Court Justice are not. Those who turned a blind eye to fiscally irresponsibility so egregious we are now more in debt than at anytime in our nation’s history are not. Those who now seek to throw out the Constitution for the benefit of one man are not. They are immoral neocons corrupted by political power and willing to do literally anything to retain that power.
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more: https://www.al.com/opinion/2020/02/yes-im-a-republican-but-are-you.html




Dude seems to have totally, totally missed the fact that That Ship Sailed Long Ago. Time to find another party was last century.

[mwooldri]

1. They're still "Republican". The GOP is now the Trump Party.

Mitch McConnell is no longer a Republican. The vast majority of the GOP elected representatives in the US Congress and across in various State and local government are Trump Party, not Republicans.

[YOHABLO]

2. He must be referring to George Wallace. Yes, back in those days we called them Dixiecrats.

This was the white segregationist faction of the Democratic Party that eventually broke off to join the Republican Party after the signing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964

[Skittles]

3. ....

I cannot respect someone who sees massive flaws in his party but still stays with them.....it is sickening. His reasoning is ridiculous.

[CaptYossarian]

4. If he thinks the Republican Classic party of Bob Dole still exists,

that was one hell of a long coma he experienced.

[Karadeniz]

5. Wake up and smell the coffee.

[FiveGoodMen]

6. "I was proud of who I thought the Nazis were and even though they actually suck..."