Republican Conservatives Not What It Used To Be

On NPR Weekend Edition Sunday we heard from a man who was a lifelong conservative, who is disgusted with the way the ideals of Reagan are being put forth.  He says his party and beliefs have become very different than before.  Not FOR anything but only against things.  Too much hate. The base of his GOP in Kansas is simply exiling moderates.  "I think the lines have been drawn in the sand. Bridges have been burned. Everybody is all-in this election," says Jim Denning, one of the conservative candidates for the state's senate.  Tim Owens is Dennings political opponent and has been fending off Koch Brothers funded attacks saying he stands with Obama. 
"The conservative element today is a far cry from what the conservative was when I was growing up," he says. "It's angry. It's hateful.""Being a conservative Republican, I'm not crazy, I'm not vicious," he says. "I'm a very reasonable human being."

This culture of hatred has got to stop.

Gingrich and the History Lesson from Brokaw and NBC

Let us speak of Gingrich, of hypocrisy, of the unmitigated gall of a man who thinks he should be president after his marriages overlap while prosecuting Clinton for infidelity, and who proclaims his integrity in the hope that, as this Tom Brokaw NBC News History Lesson from the Mitt Romney Campaign proves, he has little or none. We may still not know who exactly is the right man to lead the country as much as we are SURE it is not Newt Gingrich after his ethical violations when he was Speaker of The House.