http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/Jeb/6857 All real conservatives should be very very concerned about the encroachment of   liberalism into the Republican party.  With the likes of McCain, Guiliani and even governor 39% being "accepted", the Republican party moves gradually toward the left.  These people are much like those on the left on issues of gun control, rights of the unborn, etc.  Their prior actions, not words, prove this.  Many liberals are giddy at the thought of a race between McCain and whoever the Democrats nominate.  They are calling it "win/win" Almost always it is better to sacrifice the short term for the long term benefit.  For that reason, I will not cast a vote for president in the general elections.  All real conservatives should be very very concerned about the encroachment of   liberalism into the Republican party.  With the likes of McCain, Guiliani and even governor 39% being "accepted", the Republican party moves gradually toward the left.  These people are much like those on the left on issues of gun control, rights of the unborn, etc.  Their prior actions, not words, prove this.  Many liberals are giddy at the thought of a race between McCain and whoever the Democrats nominate.  They are calling it "win/win" Almost always it is better to sacrifice the short term for the long term benefit.  For that reason, I will not cast a vote for president in the general elections.  en-us There have been many liberal Republicans in history.  Many (Republicans) as a matter of fact, until the extreme right took over the party and made liberal a bad word. Republican liberals tended to come from California (Earl Warren and Paul N. "Pete" McCloskey), and New York , (Nelson Rockefeller) and other coastal states.  Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, the first conservationist President, Sen. Lincoln Chafee, to name a few over time. In some ways the continuity of many of Nixon's policies with those of the Kennedy-Johnson years is more remarkable than the differences. Pointing at this continuity, Noam Chomsky has called Nixon, "in many respects the last liberal president." The Republican Party most likely was taken over whole or in part by racist Democrats in the South who loved segregation, and left the Democratic party during the 60's; then past on their values.  The party may just be adjusting--it would be nice to get rid of a few extreme right leaders, to at least have balance.  The party has already been "encroached" on. http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/Jeb/6857/#c_41104 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/Jeb/6857/#c_41104 There have been many liberal Republicans in history.  Many (Republicans) as a matter of fact, until the extreme right took over the party and made liberal a bad word. Republican liberals tended to come from California (Earl Warren and Paul N. "Pete" McCloskey), and New York , (Nelson Rockefeller) and other coastal states.  Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, the first conservationist President, Sen. Lincoln Chafee, to name a few over time. In some ways the continuity of many of Nixon's policies with those of the Kennedy-Johnson years is more remarkable than the differences. Pointing at this continuity, Noam Chomsky has called Nixon, "in many respects the last liberal president." The Republican Party most likely was taken over whole or in part by racist Democrats in the South who loved segregation, and left the Democratic party during the 60's; then past on their values.  The party may just be adjusting--it would be nice to get rid of a few extreme right leaders, to at least have balance.  The party has already been "encroached" on.