Republican decline
A good post on how the Republican Party has degenerated over the last decade or more. It reminds me of the reasons why Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont left the Republican Party.
In 1988 I liked George H. W. Bush, but I was too young to vote. By 1992, I disliked him and voted for Perot; I didn't like the two-party system. I still don't like the two party system. In 1996 and 2000 I voted Democratic. While I'm an Independent, I'll vote for the Democratic candidate in 2004. Anything to fire George W. Bush.
The Evolution of a Partisan. In 1992, I watched with Bill Clinton defeat George Bush. I was 17, and while I wasn't conservative, I wasn't really a liberal either. I was pretty much a determined centrist, an ideological independent with no party affiliation. At the time, I was [Skeptical Notion]
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