Kathleen Parker puts herself in front of the GOP firing squad
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan: "I didn't leave the Republican Party, it left me". I have always felt that once the Religious conservatives become a major player in the Republican Party I was no longer a part of that party. There is nothing wrong with personal religious beliefs, and in fact there is nothing wrong with evangelizing. But once you start acting like government should hold to any set of moral beliefs I think you start down a slippery slope. I think the Founders intention was to avoid having anyone feel like their government was preventing from subscribing to a set of beliefs. And that is what the Neo-Con Christian Right is doing in my opinion.
I think this election cycle has been a real wake up call for people like Parker. They have been forced to realize what a deep hole they dug over the last 30 years in aligning themselves with the James Dobson's of this world. The party of Barry Goldwater and Abraham Lincoln is a shell of itself now, having sold its values for votes.
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