From Republican to Democrat.
I started reading his blog a couple of months ago, and I liked it because he was honest. I didn’t always agree with him, but more than most Republican bloggers. As a Republican myself I find it almost impossible to agree with most people who identify themselves as Republicans these days. I keep asking myself, “Who are these people; where did they come from? Are they really this intellectually and morally dishonest? Or is it simply stupidity?”
I didn’t start this blog with the intention of discussing politics at all, but it has crept in here because some days it’s impossible to avoid politics.
Here is his commentary, in regard to the death of a woman in Missoula, Montana, but I think it applies across the board:
a word to the Republican party
“Go fuck yourself. To death.
I am tired of being patient with you nannies and your stupid self-serving rules and your slippery slopes and your bullshit and your need to be tough on crime and your earnest concerns about society. Mind your own business, get your own house in order, stop fucking interns and little boys and cheating on your wives and on your taxes and being found dead wearing two wetsuits with a dildo shoved up your ass. Just mind your own damned business, and let people do what they must to deal with their own screwed up lives, and let people handle their pain the best way they can.”
My adult kids wonder why I haven’t changed my registration, and I wonder why myself. One look at the corruption in the OC Sheriff’s office, the understaffed fire departments in Orange and San Diego Counties as a result of local Republican policies, the fact that every person on the Orange County Board of Supervisors is a Republican, the fact that the OC Republican Party almost, almost endorsed Bill Hunt instead of Carona in the last election and so many still insisted that Carona was innocent until around 10 am today, the party that gave us B-1 Bob Dornan and John Schmitz, right here, in this county…. well, these people bear no resemblance to what I grew up believing was the Republican party, let alone what I believe about Christianity. The message they’re getting at church is very different from the one I’m getting.
Maybe I’ve been blind, that’s very possible and entirely likely, but I really think the party has changed a lot since I was a kid. It’s apparent that the OC branch was always tweaked toward the extreme and a lot of the rest of the country has followed, but how any party could ever endorse Schmitz is mind-boggling.






The party has totally changed. It has been hijacked by Christian Reconstructionists bent on bringing a return to the Dark Ages by promoting continual war. When the Christians have the most power, the subject of normalizing torture is front row center. The Inquisition was the natural expression of unchecked religious power, not an aberration.
I am convinced that at the current rate of decline, it will soon become as much a social taboo to be (or even have been) associated with the Repub Party as it was to be a Nazi in postwar Germany.
Enjoy.
It is troubling. Worse, it is getting very hard to tell what either party is ACTUALLY doing. Will the truth ever be told again?
Very troubling, indeed. I was already a bit of a cynic and very much a skeptic, but the current goings on are depressing and scary. I had a truly Kafka-esque dream two nights ago that was so terrifying that I was relieved when the cat woke me up an hour early that morning. It colored the entire day, and that’s what I get for reading the Archie McPhee catalogue with friends who were disappointed that there was no Kafka Action Figure offered in this edition.
What’s so weird is that the lies they are STILL USING are so thoroughly debunked that it defies all logic and common sense.
I offer the following clip of what I believe is the latest Republican debate. Note the continued use of 9-11/Iraq links and the flagrant use of the WMD lie. It helps to know that not only did Saddam not have any of the WMD’s (poison gas we sold him in the 90’s), but that American Scott Ritter of the UN was loudly and proudly calling our this lie at the time it was invented. The yellowcake Niger BS that Joe Wilson (Valerie Plame) called them out on is epic in regards to their continued invocation of ‘mushroom cloud’ scenarios. Who do they think they’re fooling?
I was a born and bred Republican. Like most who go to college, I had a major change of heart after a semester (the minor changes had been happening all along).
A lot of people are switching sides this time around, and I think it’s understandable. It’s interesting that Republican voters are starting to feel disenfranchised when, somewhat statistically, their party is more likely to do something that aligns with their interests. Democrats have the fringe groups with odd interests that they can’t always embody. I’m not suggesting that this is a problem (pandering creates more problems), but it does lead to a more solidified Republican party against a more fractured Democratic party.
But I think it’s interesting that a lot of people have realized that being with the Republicans (at least for religious reasons) is not really in self-interest. The Republicans have voters leaving them in droves because they’ve failed to connect to the people at the base of their party. They’ve failed to fulfill some of the most basic needs of community – as you’ve noted. However, I’m worried that the Democrats will be no better, because, as I mentioned, they’re all over the place on their values and what they see as necessary. We’ll see.
I know this is an old post, but I thought I’d post anyway.
Sorry so late replying to your reply, but I just now found it, after months away from my blog.
I’m not a serious blogger, as you can see by how my subjects are so random.
Thanks for your words, and you have summed up my worries about the Dems very well.
There is a movement in California by moderate Republicans to take back the party from the extreme right, and the extreme right is crying foul. I live in Orange County, possibly one of the most Republican counties on the planet, so the howls of anguish is pretty loud here right now.
I’ll need to see if I can track down an article.