One of the things I'm keen on doing is really revealing the degree to which the conservative movement, and by extension the Republican Party, has become a racket.
Politicians have an acutely honed instinct for self-preservation.
Your average Republican member of Congress, if you played a word association game with them and said, 'Latino,' they're going to respond 'illegal immigrant,' as opposed to 'sergeant major' or 'surgeon' or 'professor.'
So the Republican party of Teddy Roosevelt and John McCain and Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush is dead. It's over. It doesn't exist anymore.
The country badly needs to have a right-of-center political party, grounded in traditional values that the Republican Party represented till it didn't.
A lot of people like me who worked in Republican politics had a personal set of beliefs on issues that were at variance with the candidates that we worked for.
It's part of the mythology now in the Republican Party that there's widespread voter fraud all across the country. In fact, there's not.
