re: #15 iceweasel

They’re certainly acting like it, what with the endless calls for more purity within the party and calling everyone a RINO. Very bad news for us all, no matter what our political affiliation. A healthy democracy needs a minimum of two vibrant political parties if it wants to stay a democracy.

The irony is that those yelling “RINO!” the loudest are not really purists in terms of Republican tradition and history. Their notions of Republican values go only as far back as Reagan and the shotgun wedding with that mutant media-creature, the religious right.
Barry Goldwater, who essentially invented modern conservatism in this country, would not (and did not) even recognize them as allies.