Walt Handelsman for September 28, 2015

Moderate Reoublicans, those who believe in science and evolution, the separation or church and state, etc. just need to become Democrats. They keep waiting for sanity to come back to the Republican Party and its not going to happen anytime soon, best to just give up. Republicans are now primarily the anti-evidence, anti-science, anti-reality American Taliban.

For at least two generations, the Republicans have depended on the Religious Right types to man their campaign offices. They were able to count on them because they convinced the RR types that they believed in the Family Values agenda- anti-gay, anti-abortion, etc. Then, once they were elected they were willing to ignore that agenda, or make it a trade-off for securing the goals of the Rich Folks who were controlling the Republican party. In fact, they rarely mentioned those issues unless they were using them as a very expendable bargaining chip—- until the next time they needed volunteers, when it again became their manta………………………………………………….After at least 40 years, the Religious Right finally figured out that they were being played for fools, and they now are desperately looking for someone who will actually work for them. The problem is that there is no one in either party who will do it. The Democrats actually don’t agree with them, and won’t tell anyone that they do. The Republicans will say they agree totally, then go back to doing whatever the rich guys want done. The question is: Are there more Republicans who will actually vote for a Family Values candidate, or are there more who will vote for the Establishment candidate who will again be in the pocket of the Koch brothers? And, after all these years, have enough Republicans wised up enough to figure out what is going on in their own party and make their choice based on reality instead of lies?

Moderate Republican is an oxymoron.

Crying because he’s the last of his kind on the planet.