Well, now, here's an interesting little site:

[LittleClarkie]

http://mypartytoo.com/

You go, Moderate Repubs.

[Quakerfriend]

1. Interesting.

Did you see that Tommy Thompson is on the Board? I wouldn't exactly call him moderate!:P

[LittleClarkie]

2. The Republicans around here call him "Tax and Spend Tommy"

I've heard him called a RINO on more than one occasion. He's a blowhard, but in a purple state, you can only be so conservative.

[Turbineguy]

3. I guess

they figure they are going to sink along with the RW wacko's who have hijacked the GOP.

[LittleClarkie]

6. It appears they are fighting that eventuality

and trying to take the thing back.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. How can one be pro-Roe AND pro-Alito???

[LittleClarkie]

5. That's what the editorial was asking. And it concluded that you can't be.

So they agree with you.

Apparently Christine Todd Whitman, the former governor of New Jersey, former Bush cabinet member and a pro-choice Republican, is trying to make a case for pro-Roe and pro-Alito. The editorialist was refuting that position as not adding up.

There is also a link on that site for Republicans for Choice.

[Horse with no Name]

7. This is someone I could meet halfway

An opposition party is vital in a democracy.
http://mypartytoo.com/discussion/posts.asp?Topic_ID=86
squarecircle | 12/13/2005 11:21:57 AM
I have been increasingly disenchanted and separated from the Republican party for the last 10 years, but the biggest wedge grew just prior to the present president's election. The biggest reason? Extremists and fundamentalists touting themselves as compassionate conservatives with a (not so hidden anymore) agenda of forcing their viewpoint of how to live a Christian (spiritual) life on the rest of this country. Doesn't matter that a significant portion of this country's population is not Christian. Doesn't matter that there is more than one way to understand the Christian doctrine. THEY know how it should be done, which is their way. Anyone who even slightly disagrees with them is yelled down or not listened to. And the frustrating thing is that WE have let THEM do this to us. We sit back down, cowed, into our little chairs and let them think they have won because they have shut us up. If we are going to reclaim the Republican party, this country's political process and input in the application of the Constitution and the accompanying Bill of Rights, we are going to have to speak up and tell them, and our representatives, that we disagree with what is being proposed. A big tool used by these fundamentalist groups is nudging their herds to contact the representatives by phone, e-mail, snail mail, etc. Often to the point that lines are clogged. We need to do this too. Ms. Whitman made an incredibly good point: they win because we don't speak up. We have to learn to over ride their voices so that we can be heard, too.

[LittleClarkie]

8. I hung with people like this during the 2004 campaign, online at least

They had a yahoo group called "Republicans for Kerry." Through them, I'd find out about other websites and print up resources to take to Kerry HQ for ideas on how to reach more disenchanted Republicans.