Sharp turn to the right

My neighbor greeted me this morning by offering condolences for my loss in the primary. He even wrote a letter to the editor about my photo being placed in the same listing with an accused pedophile, a woman who stabbed her husband and a psychotic judge...all losers in their primaries. He finished by saying, "The far right of your party is starting to piss me off!"

He has a point. The element that has taken over the republican party has indeed pissed a lot of people off, not one of them a democrat. Those folks are laughing, rubbing their hands in glee and counting all the new members and seats they will be winning in the coming election. The party is no longer the party that Lincoln helped establish, hell, it's not even the party Reagan worked for. It's sad when mob-run Las Vegas is remembered as being more honest than those elected into office. The republican party has taken a sharp turn to the right, leaving many of their members behind. This was no more apparant than when the state party chairwoman refused to allow the vote at this year's state convention to be ratified because the majority of delegates would have voted for Ron Paul rather than John McCain. The wishes of the people, being different from the party leadership, could not be allowed to have a voice.

Many people say that the time has come for a viable third party. I say that we already have one. The fastest growing voter registration in Nevada is independent. All they need are candidates.