Big tent party reduces size of tent

[james_davis_nicoll]

Suspiciously youthful McCain supporters forced to leave campaign event.

Nicked from theweaselking

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

the fiscal conservatives get a chance to take back the party from the hands of the neo-cons & the radical Christians and gets "the Republican party of my youth" back.

[Thinks about people's ages]

What, the party of Richard M. Nixon? Because I am pretty sure he wouldn't remember Eisenhower or Goldwater....

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

I think he's speaking 'Murkin, so the "republican party of his youth" was in fact a mythical version of the republican party who had all the same policies as JFK's democratic party, and this republican version of JFK invaded even more communist countries for no real reason and totally would have sent people to mars, on a rocket powered by laissez faire economics, if Jimmy Carter hadn't shot him.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

He could mean a state Republican party. There's 50 of those, lots of room for variation.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Not the California Republican party. The CA Republican party is the equivalent of that particular aunt you NEVER ask to speak at weddings.

[avram]

He could be thinking of the Rockefeller Republicans, who were basically the Clinton Democrats of the 1960s and early '70s.

[the-nita.livejournal.com]

Darlin', you're going to have to discuss it with him, as I sure as hell don't remember much of the 1960-70's US politics.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I will never forgive Nixon for pre-empting TV shows in the early 1970s.