Monday, September 24, 2012
Party Time: GOP needs to accept the present if it's going to be a party for the future
Opinion: During the past long weekend – thanks to organized labor – I had a chance to spend about 48 hours in Florida visiting with my mother and meeting her new cat. Those were the highlights. The lowlight was that the phone kept ringing. ''Oh, it's another political call,'' Dora would say curtly after checking the caller ID. I don't know what tipped her off, or if she was correct in that she would never pick up these suspicious calls, but I'm not surprised by them. Dora is a hot demographic. She's a retired, registered voter in a swing state. Possibly even more curious to the pollsters, she's been registered in Florida as both a Democrat and a Republican. At the moment, she's a registered Republican. It's a leftover from 2010, when she jumped ship so she could vote for Charlie Crist in the GOP Senate primary in hopes of fending off the eventual Marco Rubio win. ... (more)
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