“I haven’t changed as a Republican,” she said. “I think more that my party has changed.”
Moderate Republicans in Congress these days are about as rare as the White Rhino.
In an era where the national party is ruled by wild eyed fanatics like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Joe Wilson, old school fiscally moderate northeastern Republicans like Olympia Snowe of Maine are a dying breed that is nearly extinct.
It's a shame, too, because these folks were once the core of the party. George Herbert Walker Bush, Lincoln Chafee, Dwight Eisenhower, and Nelson Rockefeller were all sane, smart, cerebral, rational, fiscally conservative members of the GOP who won national elections and who appealed widely to independent swing voters...
In other words, very different than Sarah Palin.
Olympia Snowe is therefore perhaps the key politician in Washington D.C. today: her support or opposition to the president's health care plan could very well be the difference.
I'm glad they seem to be getting along....
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