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We Don’t Need a New G.O.P. We Need the
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Posted By: FlyRight, 2/22/2024 4:59:08 AM

Although I was born into a typical Democrat New York City family, I registered as a Republican as soon as I was old enough to vote. Why? Just to be different but at heart, I was as enamored of John F. Kennedy as the nuns at my high school. My first vote was for Democrat Hubert Humphrey, and I worked for Robert F. Kennedy’s senatorial campaign. But I was never really a Republican at heart until Ronald Reagan ran for president in 1976. Before that epiphany, I was as clueless as the rest of America, and when a German coworker asked me the difference between the two major parties,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: 5 handicap 2/22/2024 5:33:24 AM (No. 1662811)
Everybody's gotta love Alicia! As I recall, in 1965 the Pubbies controlled the Congress and not a single Democrat voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of that year; however, Johnson signed the legislation.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: privateer 2/22/2024 6:31:37 AM (No. 1662835)
Another gem from the actual Wise Latina, Alicia Colon!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: RussZilla 2/22/2024 6:59:29 AM (No. 1662846)
Thanks, Alicia, for the history lesson. I’ve followed your columns since the 90s, (Well, I think since then.) Thanks for your insights and wisdom. Let’s hope razón prevails this election season. Lord, we need it!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 2/22/2024 7:13:54 AM (No. 1662855)
No doubt the GOP is the lesser of two evils, but I've grown weary of voting for evil. The republicans may have started with a pure heart, but they have shifted to immoral and greedy. Not unlike the sweet little girl in Sunday school who ended up being the girl turning tricks for money.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: aliciacolon 2/22/2024 7:42:28 AM (No. 1662872)
I forgot to mention that the GOP platform entiond pro life and God
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Reply 6 - Posted by: BarryNo 2/22/2024 7:59:30 AM (No. 1662887)
Old one? Even in Lincoln's day, many Republican officials identified as "Republican" merely to gain power. The Swamp has been there since the early 1800s, made up of wealthy ruthless individuals who sought government positions, not to serve, but to protect their wealth and acquire more. They isolate and ridicule honest men and women, who WOULD serve, if they could. Even if we had term limits, these paragon of Greed would buy their power, through puppets, but at least then the rot would be a step removed. I sometimes feel a treason trial needs to be done on each elected official, when they leave office, with the penalty, if it is found they used their authority to enrich themselves instead of the country, to be executed, immediately. Then, you might chase the Swamp monsters out!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Californian 2/22/2024 8:03:24 AM (No. 1662894)
No we don't need the old party back. If they were so great how did we end up here?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 2/22/2024 8:28:12 AM (No. 1662916)
Yes! Yes! Let's bring back the wonderful old GOP - - of Nelson Rockefeller, Jacob Javits, Arlen Spector, and Earl Warren. Those were the good old days!
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Reply 9 - Posted by: NamVet70 2/22/2024 8:31:04 AM (No. 1662918)
RE poster number 7. Californian, we didn't get here through the Republican party, and if you are proud of California you might be part of the problem. MAGA
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Reply 10 - Posted by: FormerDem 2/22/2024 9:00:17 AM (No. 1662933)
Yes to this. Our country has the most amazing and illuminating history. The GOP was for forty acres and a mule and the Democrats would not, just as she says. MLK was a Republican. Remember how many times you have heard the phrase "first Black person elected to Congress from ** since Reconstruction"? What that means is, in the Republican-led Reconstruction there WERE Black congressmen. Then the KKK dialed back on that. Some of the Democratic statues hidden in the Capitol basement are of truly shocking people..
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Reply 11 - Posted by: montwoodcliff 2/22/2024 9:35:35 AM (No. 1662961)
When Alicia speaks, you listen. She is saying what Dick Morris said some time ago and is something I have always done…you vote for the party, not the man! I don’t care what any Democrat says, even if he/she speaks with common sense. The Democrats lie and will always toe the party line. The trouble is that Republicans go along to get along, but they are still better than commie Democrats.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: ARKfamily 2/22/2024 10:18:23 AM (No. 1663003)
Just recently I came across the word, froward. I admit I thought it was spelled wrong and should have been forward. Then, I looked up the definition and found "habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition". I was reminded of this word while reading Alicia Colon's article. Democrats sure fit the bill. The thing of it is they think they are forward-thinking kind of people, progressive if you will. Nope, I think Democrats are froward-thinking kind of people. . .
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Zigrid 2/22/2024 10:44:58 AM (No. 1663031)
I'm gonna try posting this comment one more time...two comments have been pulled...I think it's upsetting someone at lucianne....WE don't need another GOP...President Trump is the leader of the GOP...and nothing nasty Nikki says will change that...she reminds me of the ole saying..."hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"...and then there's crooked hillary who says she wants to reprogram MAGA deplorable people...talk about being bitter...
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Reply 14 - Posted by: DVC 2/22/2024 11:13:23 AM (No. 1663063)
Yes, but the GOP had many members who absolutely hated Reagan, too. These RINOs worked with the Dems to cripple many of his policies.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: chumley 2/22/2024 11:17:53 AM (No. 1663066)
In my state candidates switch parties at the drop of a hat because voters pull the lever for the party, not the candidate. It works, and as a result we get some awfully sleazy characters in office. And now that democrat=communist and republican=spineless wimp, we arent left with much.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: vinegrower 2/22/2024 11:51:59 AM (No. 1663091)
I agree with Alicia but I think the title of the article is unfortunate. I certainly don't want to return to the Rockefeller, Bush country club Republican era.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: abuela10 2/22/2024 12:15:06 PM (No. 1663109)
#16 I believe the article refers to the Lincoln era Republicans not the 20th century GO which is full of RINOs
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Reply 18 - Posted by: MickTurn 2/22/2024 12:30:51 PM (No. 1663131)
We need to PROSECUTE all Politicians that DO NOT follow the Constitution. Obama infested all govt. agencies with his Commie Thugs, and this is the result!
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Scribelus 2/22/2024 3:22:30 PM (No. 1663230)
The current iteration of "Republicans" is better known as Whigs before the pro-slavery branch split off.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: Surroundedbyblue 2/22/2024 8:24:27 PM (No. 1663397)
Me thinks we need no GOP. Not new or old. We are just now seeing what the real GOP is.
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