Is the GOP moving too far right?

[Brambila]

Socially and economically, the GOP is moving left- even gay marriage.

[Brambila]

Socially? I think they're all moving left. It's harder to find a republican who is pro-life and save-sex marriage/gay rights anymore. I think Democrats are moving further to the left, and so it seems like republicans are conservative socially.

[Brambila]

I guess all of you were born yesterday, for being anti-abortion and anti-gaymarriage was the NORM in political thinking until the last few decades.

Abortion has been legal in the United States for all but about 80 years. It used to be legal (at least in the earlier terms) until the AMA's crusade around 1890.

And gay marriages have been attempted in America since at least 1889.

Slavery was legal in the United States for all but about 140 years. It used to be legal until abolitionists' crusade in the 1850s and 60s.