of "Johnny-come-lately" Republicans denouncing what most of us view as the extremism running rampant in today's GOP Tea Party. Huntsman was a little better than most of the Republican candidates during the primary but in the end he still endorsed practically the entire GOP Tea Party agenda in his futile attempt to win the GOP nomination, even muddying his previous unapologetic defense of his belief in global warming. Oh, yes, of course, he DID ultimately end up endorsing Mitt for POTUS.
It would be refreshing to (once again) see some elected Republicans trying to work with Democrats while they are still elected (in office) and able to actually DO something and make a difference instead of waiting to turn their barrels on them until they are out of office and, ultimately, powerless to really do anything, sometimes at even the expense of countless lives as what happened with Colin Powell and Iraq. Had Powell stood up to Bush and spoke out about the folly that Bush/Cheney were going to be getting us into in Iraq and the flimsy evidence they were using to get us to invade/occupy it, I believe that it might've slowed and/or stopped the rush to war that was proceeding apace at this time. He has bloodstains on his hand that he will never IMHO be able to get rid of by keeping his mouth shut and delivering evidence to the UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL that he KNEW to be unreliable and/or false.
My message to Republicans is this: If you don't like the extremist things your party is doing and putting in their platform planks, do something about it! Speak out! Vote against filibusters! Agree to work with Democrats on issues! Otherwise, if you keep your mouths shut, if you join them in their filibusters in the Senate, etc., then you are supporting/enabling the extremists!!!
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