I often joke to friends that the only people I dislike more than Republicans are Democrats.  A joke, mind you. . .and not directed at the rank-and-file of either party for the most part.  More directed toward the political leadership.  They so often mutilate what started as noble ideas.

2blowhards ponders the New Right.  A small government, lower taxes, mind-your-own-damned business right, if I may take liberties.  A very thoughtful posting here.

"Now how do I, a man of the Right, feel about the present situation? Well. It’s certainly nice to realize that the present crop of sham Right Wingers – Rooseveltian in their lust for government spending, Wilsonian in their Universalist foreign policy, and self-destructively embarrassing in their courting of the lowest common denominator – is in no way deserving of my support or allegiance. On the other hand, it’s frightening to observe that this political axis’s 400-year old history seems to have been terminated not too long ago, and replaced by something that couldn’t function better as a puppet opposition if it had been designed as such."