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"Disappointing Day"

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• Michael Pahre said:

  Your video link for Richard Lowry is dead.

  October 29, 2008 6:17 PM

• LorenzoJennifer said:

  Whoosh!  Excellent narrative on Jay Severin's radio comments.  His 10/16, 3-4 pm broadcast had Jim Braude as guest and they discussed the third presidential debate. Missing from your non-audio narrative is Severin's seething and snarling tone. Braude attempted to introduce a moderate tone to no avail. With guys like Severin, any Obama "political honeymoon" may include a nightmare as early as November 5.

  The rise of the religious right in the GOP can be seen by comparing 1968 with 2008. George Romney, father of Mitt, was a thrice-elected Michigan governor who entered the 1968 GOP presidential primary. While he made an early exit, he became Nixon's HUD Secretary.  George, like Mitt, was a Mormon yet his religious affiliation was hardly mentioned during his public service career.   Mitt's Mormon faith, as we've seen, stirred unease if not blood-boiling hatred from the GOP religious right in 2008.

  A group to watch is the National Black Republican Association (nbra.com; oddly missing from a  Wikipedia search but found through ask.com). Founded in 2005, the nbra is socially and fiscally conservative. Not a bunch of religious right wing nuts. On their web, they continue to be highly critical of Barack Obama. The 2008 GOP convention had 53% White delegates, 5% Latin-American and 2% Black American. Wonder if the nbra will have a place inside the GOP "big tent" or continue as an independent entity.

  Lincoln Chaffee and William Weld are among Republicans endorsing Obama. Liberal Republicans - - socially liberal but fiscally moderate-to- conservative - - include our own Edward W. Brooke III, America's first popularly elected Black American to the US Senate. Also, in an earlier day, Frank Sargent, John Volpe, and Leverett Saltonstall among others.  Add in NY Mayor John Lindsay, Nelson Rockefeller, Pennsylvania's Bill Scranton and more.  Famous long ago.  If the Liberal Republicans continue to be outcasts from  the elephant herd, some may - - may - - form a socially liberal and fiscally moderate-to-conservative grouping in the Democratic Party. They gotta go someplace!

  October 30, 2008 9:38 AM

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