Why Dixie hugged the GOP.

The time has come for the Republican Party to choose a new symbol. Its tradition is unfortunately going on.

The elephant is a legendary creature with indelible memories. But Republicans seem to have Amnesiac nearly a witness in his own chapter, not too distant past.

When Senator James Jeffords of Vermont left, there is little time its ranks his party drew ex-mates “Turncoat!” The word was on their lips for weeks. It is marked by a slur degrading, as if their heads “eyes to see, LAST DAYS Benedict Arnold and Tokyo Rose.

But if a turncoat for putdown Jeffords, which is suitable adjective for South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, before 1964, a Democrat, a Republican, then? North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms is the same buttons in 1972, before he was elected.

Of all human beings, Republicans should be the last to use turncoat as a synonym for traitor. In its political lexicon, the word should be more logical that this is not an insult but a compliment.

In addition to many Democrats wiedertaufend South as a Republican, the Grand Old Party should not have …

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