I left @GOP nearly 18 years ago because, nearly ten years after Gingrich had become Speaker, I could no longer stand its antiscience, anti-intellectual bent, with evolution denial, refusal to allow embryonic stem cell research, and increasing hostility to climate science.
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It took nearly a decade for my misgivings watching
@GOP lose its freaking mind over the election of Bill Clinton and become increasingly the party of conspiracy theories and science denial to finally drive me away.1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes -
Basically, the invasion of Iraq was the final straw, the culmination of the decade before, when I became increasingly uncomfortable and alarmed at
@GOP and could no longer support it. But even I never thought it works get as dangerously nutty as it is now.0 replies 0 retweets 5 likes -
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Can you elaborate? I haven’t heard this take.
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I can’t remember the last time I saw a republican concerned about balancing the budget
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When there is a Democrat in the White House that’s the only time they care about debt, the deficit, or the debt ceiling.
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Correct, and the one time a @GOP President (Bush I) did care enough to do something about it he lost re-election.
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