After watching the last 2 days of the political talk shows, I'm just amazed with how small and petty the GOP has become. It's hard to believe just how far they've fallen in the last 30 years.
Looking back at some of the reporting on Nelson Mandela, I am taken aback by 2 things. The first is that the GOP actually went against the President, a man of their own party, in overriding Reagan's veto of sanctions against South Africa. They held the Senate, and enough GOP Senators worked with Democrats to do the right thing. This would never happen today, no matter what the issue. Also, I am more and more amazed at South African President de Klerk, who stepped down and allowed open elections, which led to Mandela's election. Compare that with what the GOP did when Obama was elected in 2008. Before he was ever sworn in, the GOP had gotten together and decided to oppose any and all things that the new President would propose.
In comparing the GOP of today with the GOP of the mid 1960s or even the leader of a government that ruled by apartheid, the GOP looks very small and petty. And it seems they have no desire to expand their ideas. I doubt a conference on how they should talk to women is going to solve that basic problem.
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