Or at least he used to be.
I now disagree profoundly with the party on positions that its leadership and most vocal and influential constituencies have come to decree -- since 1972, anyway -- as litmus tests.
I always found the democrat's position on abortion counter-intuitive. Defend to the last man the rights of every differently-abled physically-challenged transgendered albino little person of color with a speech impediment in their native language and no desire to learn English to be free of second-hand smoke from three states away, but ignore the most fundamental right of all - the right to life. Fight against all kinds of discrimination but never you mind about discriminating against Christians. Choose whatever you want to do with your body but forget about choice in schools, where your tax dollars go, and what happens to the money from your paycheck under the heading "FICA." When you think of the "big tent" the democrats have been it makes you wonder how they got there. It is no surprise they might become an endangered species. Mark goes on to say:
This space hasn't agreed with every position taken by Pat Moynihan, but has always respected and quite enjoyed the illustrious statesman from New York, whose loss to the Senate is rendered all the more grievous by the choice voters made on his successor.
Hillary Rodham Clinton. I thought only Republicans had three names.
Though I go only by two names I have been a Republican since way before I could vote or fit into Florsheims. I think Capitalism run amok is letting China into the WTO. A strong national defense and tough foreign policy is better than a thousand treaties, especially if the treaties involve things you can't see like air. I used to smoke big topedo-shaped cigars to keep bugs and liberals away. Sure I care about the environment - I want to open my door every day to pick up my copy of the Washington Times and have the world still be there. A girl once broke up with me because she found out I voted for Bob Dole. That was after he became the poster boy for geriatric erectile dysfunction. Why am I a Republican? Because they don't think the government can fix everything, they know how to win wars (they just can't finish them), they believe individual responsibility, and generally speaking they are not pro-abortion. They understand and appreciate the Christian ethos that this country is founded on rather than discount it as archaic and backward. Oh, and they give me rides on their big boats.
Just think what a pickle we'd be in if Al Gore was President. The Chinese would be sending their laundry our way, he'd be snuggling up with Arafat, and he'd be funding research for vehicles that run on alternative fuels, like cars that run on Republicans.
