Quote Originally Posted by loosechickens View Post
It's not your father's Republican Party, and not even the Republican party of my youth and middle age......the folks running the show today make the old John Birchers look positively socialist.
Even if Bachmann and Perry don't get the nomination, I think they do much to shift the center to the right.

I remember not long ago when Hillary Clinton was running she was accused of being nothing more than a back door to Bill getting back into the White House. And I don't think anyone could construe "submissive" out of that relationship.