Sarah from trying to grok has a post on the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Here is an excerpt but do yourself a favor and read the whole thing:
Kal makes a point today that I think I can identify heavily with: "The Democrats may have no place in their ranks for moderates, but the Republicans don't seem to have a problem having a DWS American and South Park Republican around." From my own experiences in the blogosphere, this seems to be true. The Republicans encompass everyone from the fundamental Christian to the heathen millionaire, and everyone in between.
Needless to say, this is one of the main reasons that I’m a Republican.
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I was a Democrat for most of my life. My values haven't really changed at all, but my former party did. The Republicans managed to marginalize their freaky extremists but the Democrats have embraced theirs.
Howard Dean bugs me. Sure for all the usual reasons, but what really bugs me is that he's supposed to be a Congregationalist. Uggh, he makes the rest of us look bad. Couldn't someone else take him? Why would Congregationalists take someone who changes his beliefs so dramatically over a durned bicycle path? Not over conscience, not over a conflict of moral beliefs, not over the way his former church handled social matters but over a friggin' bicycle path. What's up with that?
Kal
posted on 12.18.2003 7:18 PM