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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (8743)	5/23/2001 3:39:00 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

What the Jeffers announcement symbolizes is that the GOP is losing/has lost its grip over the moderate wing of the party. These days, if you ain't to the right of Dick Cheney, "Bugs" DeLay or Antonin Scalia, don't come a-knockin'. If Nelson Rockefeller were alive today, he would be told by the GOP South-Western power cabal to "scram." Never in the history of the United States has the Republican Party been less inclusive of moderates than it is today. If the Republicans were smart, they would have bent on some issues to accommodate people like Jeffers, and even McCain, whose campaign finance reform legislation, which passed the Senate with 61 votes, remains stalled by soon-to-be Minority Leader Trent Lott as part of a parliamentary maneuver to avoid sending the legislation to the House. If the Republicans were smart, they would have used Bush's victory to expand their base among moderates and minorities instead of "getting even" for eight years of Clinton-Gore.

To: sandintoes who wrote (8743)	5/24/2001 3:11:55 PM
From: SofaSpud	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

I'm looking for some education: Vermont is a very liberal state Somewhere in the coverage on this issue, I read that prior to the mid-1950s Vermont was one of the strongest Republican states. If the Republicans were conservative during that time (I presume that's so, but again am willing to be corrected), then Vermont was conservative. So, what happened to turn Vermont so liberal? Was there a demographic change (immigration, an exaggerated baby-boom)? Economic hardship? It seems odd that in 50 years you would have that shift there but not elsewhere. TIA