People love to interpret posts the way they want to on this board. The times have changed, guys. Most white collar suburbanites couldn't careless about gays, drugs, school prayer, etc. Their main issue of concern is economics and inteligent governance. While they don't align perfectly with the campaign platform of Nelson Rockefeller in 1964, they are the children of this voting demographic, and this is 2010, not 1964! It's a matter of generational shift.
P.S. Gravel is a liberal-leaning libertarian on the nolan chart, right cozy next to Jim Jeffords.
Yet they still proudly wear his name.
My advice, don't call them Rockefeller Republicans.
People like myself use the term Rockefeller Republican, despite being pro drug legalization and pro other things Nelson was anti- or anti- things he was pro etc, because there are few other terms that so easily distinguish people like us from say, Teabaggers, Reaganites, Goldwater, RR, types etc...had some other politician been the most prominent member of the Left/Liberal Wing of the Republican party...Im sure that would be the term now under scrutiny...but Ford Republican, or Eisenhower, or Scranton Republican just didn't catch.
I think the Republican party wants people like you out. Rockefeller/Scranton Republicans are basically modern DLC Democrats. I get pressured into switching on "city" issues or for "balance", but I'm not taking the religious right with me. And one thing with Philadelphia, you'd be foolish not to be a Democrat. The primary basically determines the winner.
