Can someone remind me why Torie's avatar is red?
Local reasons, but I really consider myself more or less a true independent now. The GOP is in a bad place in general right now - a very bad place. The Dems are not any better. I like Ryan because he's smart, principled, issue focused, genial, works well with others, and relatively reasonable and pragmatic. That makes him sadly rather unusual in the Pub party these days, among those with much profile at least.
The GOP is broken, and it's probably best for everyone if big business and mainstream members of the Republicans and Democrats started a new party.It won't be good for them.
If there is one thing made abundantly clear, it's that a status-quo party for the corporations and wealthy is going nowhere. When we had two of them, they could pretend to oppose each other, but if there's just one it will start losing.
