Demagogue

That tired meme keeps getting repeated, no matter how flimsy the evidence supporting it. Hell, the Senate Minority Leader is a pro-life Mormon.

Anyway, the GOP looks like it's going to face a test over whether pro-choicers are going to be welcome any more. Here's what one of the leaders of the Ohio Hate Amendment had to say when a fellow Ohioan "who supports some abortion rights" was asked to co-chair the RNC:

The co-chairwoman of the party during the 2000 election, Patricia Harrison, also supported some abortion rights, but Mr. Burress argued that the 2004 election had changed the party.

"They have got to go," he said. "The pendulum is swinging the other way now. We have a seat at the table now."

This is one of the effects of winning power. When you're out, you've all got to band together to fight the common enemy. When you're in and feeling confident, the bolsheviks start purging the mensheviks.

Will no one rid the GOP of these turbulent moderates?