The Repukes have never changed

[hifiguy]

3. True enough, but the plutocrats are what plutocrats have

always been.

Once upon a time my home state of Minnesota had a great tradition of moderate-to-progressive Republicans: Governors like Elmer L. Anderson, Harold LeVander and Arne Carlson, congresscritters like Bill Frenzel and Clark MacGregor, and Senator Dave Durenberger. All solid, sensible people with whom one could disagree in a civil and principled manner that was reciprocated.

The moderates were systematically purged by the bible-bangers between 1990 and 2000. There's not a sane one left among them. Former governors Anderson and Carlson endorsed John Kerry in 2004, and Carlson endorsed Obama in '08 (Anderson passed away in ''06 IIRC).. Durenberger is now an independent.

Oh for the days of Jake Javits, Chuck Percy, Pete McCloskey, Ed Brooke and other sane Republicans. For them the good of the country came before the good of the party.