Why I quit the Republican Party

[DiscoBerry]

RNCs Latino outreach director for Florida has left the Republican party. 

Last night, Pantoja put the Grand Old Party in his past. In a moving online letter, he rejected his half-decade of work as a Republican operative and announced he’d become a Democrat. The reason was simple: He’d become fed up with “the culture of intolerance” on the right. “When the political discourse resorts to intolerance and hate, we all lose in what makes America great and the progress made in society,” he wrote, singling out the Heritage Foundation’s recent attacks on immigrant intellectual capacities as the icing on a very large prejudice cake.

This makes me think he probably doesn't belong in politics anyway. 

For a long time, he says, he didn't understand what the Democratic Party was really about, assuming it was a pack of socialists trying to destroy American freedom. But he began to realize his misconceptions. “The only way some of these elected [official]s can function in the Republican Party is if they take these extreme positions,” he says. Democrats, on the other hand, “seem more in tune with the reality of what happens in diverse communities.”

http://www.salon.com/2013/05/14/why_i_quit_the_republican_party/

[nickiknack]

For a long time, he says, he didn't understand what the Democratic Party was really about, assuming it was a pack of socialists trying to destroy American freedom. But he began to realize his misconceptions. “The only way some of these elected [official]s can function in the Republican Party is if they take these extreme positions,” he says. Democrats, on the other hand, “seem more in tune with the reality of what happens in diverse communities.”

Talk about drinking the right wing kool-aid. Glad to hear he decided to wise up in some sense. I really miss level headed republicans.

[mellenORL]

Yeah, level headed republicans are extinct -  they have had to become Dems or Indies. Eisenhower was a decent president, and very good at foretelling the future with his wary attitude to the military industrial complex born out of the war. Goldwater warned about religious fanaticism infiltrating the party too. Goldwater was demonized as a modern day Ghengis Khan back in the sixties...he'd be called a socialist by the teahadis, today.

[Dynamic Dragon]

Yeah, level headed republicans are extinct -  they have had to become Dems or Indies. Eisenhower was a decent president, and very good at foretelling the future with his wary attitude to the military industrial complex born out of the war. Goldwater warned about religious fanaticism infiltrating the party too. Goldwater was demonized as a modern day Ghengis Khan back in the sixties...he'd be called a socialist by the teahadis, today.

Even Nixon, corrupt as he was, did a lot of good.  The GOP has seriously gone downhill, ever since at least 2008 (personally, I think the downhill slide began with Dubya).  The Republicans today are clinging to outdated ideas from the Reagan era.

[Distind]

Even Nixon eventually attempted to reach out to the opposition(not that it did much good).

But yeah, that stereotype of republicans having nothing but kneejerk reactions. That seems to be exactly what this guy used to be.

[Lt. Fred]

How can you add to that? It's all there- the Dunnig-Krueger ignorance of the Republican base, the outright bigotry of even the latte-right crowd... Beautiful.