The Biggest Fools in America: Those who help “Republicans” get elected

[Bluenorthwest]

63. That's doing some long reach into the past to say something nice about a Party which my father

saw as extreme right wing, greedy and bigoted before I was born. My family's disgust with the GOP goes all the way back to Franklin and Eleanor. Yes, I could point to some random Republicans here and there who were not horrific, Oregon Governor Tom McCall had some great moments in the 70's. But Oregon Senator Wayne Morse is a better example of a righteous Republican. Morse was elected to the Senate as a Republican, and while serving his first term left the Republican Party in protest of the nomination of Richard Nixon as VP. Damn good reason. Wayne was then an Independent. Later he was elected to the Senate as a Democrat, where he was a vocal critic of the Vietnam War and a vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
Today, what I see are people who were proud Reagan supporters, who say they were Republicans for 'the markets' and left the Republican Party because of 'the markets'. That's not much like Wayne Morse.

But let's not forget that the 1992 Republican Convention Keynote Speaker was Pat Buchanan. His rhetoric was horrific. 23 years ago.