[Publius6961]

There is soon to be a three party system. One will be the Puritan Conservative Republican party where they will not tolerate any other view outside their own. Then there will be the Republican party which will allow views expressed openly and consider all.

Give it a rest.
That is not only an ignorant personal opinion and inaccurate, but wanders dangerously close to the subject of this thread.

I for one reject a label. Been a registered democrat all my life, but voted for Nixon, Reagan and both Bushes, and had loads of entertainment in the process.

This label fetish and party uber alles approach to persuasion is puerile and counterproductive.

[Snuffington]

This label fetish and party uber alles approach to persuasion is puerile and counterproductive.

It also misunderstands the notion that parties in the United States represent a myriad of interests - never a monolithic block of opinion. That's why parties have the ability to change their platforms without dissolving.

Parties are essentially no more than loose alliances whose diverse memnbers temporarily agree about how to get certain things done. People who are shocked to find disagreement within their own party don't understand what parties are.

[crz]

Ignorant is it? I'll give it a rest when the label Rhino is dropped from the party I belong to and those on the far right stop insisting they get their way no matter what the outcome. I.E. Pat Buckanans split. Reagan had a golden rule..do not speak ill of your fellow party members..problem is the religious right has forgotten that rule. If they get their man in from the party, no matter what his veiws, they might just get some of their agenda passed. But nope, got to have it all at once and yesterday. And I dont speak of things like the 10 commandment issue in Al or the rule one nation under god in the pledge. I speak of issues like the dreaded abortion issue. The would get a more favorable law in re the abortion issue if they would work to get at least a moderate in office in the northeast in more states.