>>I’m a lifelong Republican voter, so it pains me to tell you that I’m quitting the GOP.<<
I’m a lifelong Republican voter myself. It seems so long ago that I was proud to call myself a “dyed-in-the-wool Republican”.
I am ashamed of what the party has become. I feel I have to go out of my way to explain to my liberal friends that the Republican party does not represent me. I never thought that day would come, but it has.
I can finally empathize with what conservative Democrats must have been going through when the scales fell from their eyes, and they saw their party descending into what it is now.