Originally posted by GeneV I see you edited the post since I read it last. I'm just curious, but do you ascribe to all of the absolute statements of the current GOP? Back when I was a Republican, it seemed like both sides agreed that our system was a compromise, but one side leaned more toward protecting a certain set of interests and the other side leaned more toward protecting another set of interests. We worked together and got some decent solutions. Somewhere along the way, it seems like the GOP has taken rhetoric from Ronald Reagan (which is not even the way he governed), and deemed it the absolute, immutable truth of a Biblical nature. That is where I parted ways.
That's my point. You said it better. I'm just saying my wife, friends and family (most of them anyway) still do this. The current republicans are not doing this. Their goal is as McCain and I believe the Senate Minority leader said, their job is to remove President Obama from office and give him no cooperation. I'd say they're doing just that. The real crime is we're letting them, and the Democrats aren't screaming this loud enough.
"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told National Journal's Major Garrett in October.
Fox News' Bret Baier asked McConnell Sunday if that was still his major objective.
"Well, that is true," McConnell replied. "That's my single most important political goal, along with every active Republican in the country."
That is where the current republican loyalties lie, not with the people of America.