"In my mind's eye, I can see Ronald Reagan, watching all the goings-on down here in his old earthly home.
The Republican Party that is in such disrepute today is not the party of Reagan. It is the party of Rush Limbaugh, of Ann Coulter, of Newt Gingrich, of George W. Bush, of Karl Rove. It is not a conservative party, it is a party built on the blind and narrow pursuit of power... They have turned to a politics of exclusion, division and nastiness. Today, they wonder what went wrong, why Americans have turned on them, why they lose, or barely win, even in places such as Indiana, Virginia and North Carolina. I suspect Reagan is wondering who these clowns are who want so desperately to wrap themselves in his cloak." ~~ Mickey Edwards, former U.S. congressman, lecturer at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and author of "Reclaiming Conservatism. ~~Full article: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-edwards24-2009jan24,0,653092.story
