The GOP is becoming the party of exclusion. Who wants to be a part of that? By Kathleen Parker

[DonViejo]

PHILADELPHIA

A longtime Republican friend texted just as the Democratic National Convention was burying itself in balloons: “I’m sorry,” she said, “I’m a Democrat.” Another Republican friend called after President Obama spoke Wednesday night: “I’m sorry,” he said, “I’m a Democrat.”

No apologies necessary. But thanks surely go to Donald Trump and his spineless Republican enablers. The party of Lincoln, a sometimes laughable bragging point for diehards whose racial attitudes survived the Civil War intact, is long gone. Its dissolution began at least with Richard Nixon, who embraced a Southern strategy that pandered to racists and set the course for today’s GOP.

The party of angry men and patient women tried to add a little sugar and spice, plunging itself ever lower on the curve when it embraced a cute little winkin’, blinkin’ and noddin’ gal-gov from Alaska as vice-presidential running mate to John McCain — and a heartbeat away from the presidency.

Next came the tea party movement, to which Sarah Palin briefly attached her Winnebago, followed by the government shutdown, and culminating with the glittering, twittering Tower of Trump.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/conservative-but-not-republican/2016/07/29/a8941a8c-55cf-11e6-b7de-dfe509430c39_story.html

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1. Kathleen Parker too?

[DonViejo]

3. The list of conservative columnists abandoning the GOP's Presidential candidate....

is getting quite long, isn't it? David Brooks, Erik Erikson, George Will, Kathleen Parker and Jennifer Rubin jump to mind as just a few folks abandoning the S.S. Trumptanic

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. David Brooks and George Will don't surprise me.

The others, yes. Interesting times.

[mopinko]

6. ikr?

damn. rats leavin a sinking ship.

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. They're showing signs of intelligence!

[mopinko]

8. a tiny flicker of a conscience?

they own this mess. i hope it gnaws on them in the still of the night.

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. Sadly, it probably won't.

[Cha]

2. See how important our DNC was/is in actually being heard..

"A longtime Republican friend texted just as the Democratic National Convention was burying itself in balloons: “I’m sorry,” she said, “I’m a Democrat.” Another Republican friend called after President Obama spoke Wednesday night: “I’m sorry,” he said, “I’m a Democrat.”

Mahalo, Don~

[lillypaddle]

5. Wasn't she a speech writer

for Ronnie, or am I thinking of someone else?

[duncang]

10. I wonder if house/senate repubs have even considered

If he did become prez. He would throw a fit if they did not kiss butt every day and if they didn't do as he wanted he would go after them.

[Wednesdays]

11. The first half was great

The second half of the article devolved into a navel-gazing defense of conservativism. Should have quit while still ahead.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. K&R