After Specter, 3 More GOP Defections?

Republicans are blaming everyone, but themselves. Part of the problem is that representatives (and some argue the leader of their ideology) like Rush Limbaugh think that they're the sharpest knife in the drawer. No one else opinion matters because they have spoken and there can be no descent. All who do so must be checked for patriotism, loyalty and socialist affiliations.

That's the deceitfulness of arrogance; they don't realize they're under its spell. It convinces you that no one matters but you and your agendas. It's boring and tired. Their arrogance is revealed in the fact that they're actually surprised and upset that someone would want to leave their party, as if the issues within their party are insignificant. When they set them selves up as the "white" political party, they do themselves a disservice.

When you watch their national conventions and see nothing but rednecks and hear nothing but country and western music being played, it tells you the people that they are catering to. There's no diversity to their ideas or party; no inclusiveness. Its rednecks, apple pie and Chevrolet. Unfortunately, for them, the country is made up of far more than cowboys. That's what makes us unique. There's a whole spectrum of people of every hue and color; every language and ethnicity and every religion that are American citizens. They speak with accents; they honor and respect the traditions of their ancestors just like the Irish and Italians and Jews do they and love this country. They may eat different foods, but they're no less Americans.

Republicans don't get this. When some Arabs attacked us, they saw all Arabs as the same. To our shame, this country responded in the same way with Japanese Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Would they suspect and lock up all whites if we went to war with Europe? To them the only thing that's important is being able to have more money than God and no one especially the government tells them what to do. That's why armed militias are easy produced from their group. They're angry, exclusive and racist. Anyone who doesn't want things back to "the way they were is a threat. The problem is that when things were "the way they were" many of the people of color in this nation were discriminated against and even today, with all the so-called changes made, we here of hate crimes and discrimination. So, no one cares that this fringe group of angry, predominately white secessionist known as the GOP, feels that something's wrong with anyone who would leave a party that's running full speed ahead towards becoming extinct. They have to trivialize and demonize the Arlen Spectors and John McCains of their party because they expose their extreme partisanship. The republicans would rather President Obama fail and the country go under than assist him in getting the country back on its feet first and then play political games. That "Country First" garbage was exposed when they became the party of NO!

Gary In Pismo Beach of CA 9:55PM April 30, 2009