I will admit it, I read
Redstate a lot. I have even posted there a few times, only to be banned rather quickly.
Often I don't agree with what they have to say, but compared to LGF or drudge, several posters there are very intelligent, caring, and patriotic Americans. They just happen to be conservative republicans.
I find some of the threads on redstate to be sobering, especially when they force me to confront my own beliefs with logical arguments. Other times, I find myself laughing (just as they laugh at us "kos kidz") at how much they have missed the point.
Today however, a diary made it to rec's list that I just love to see.
Final Post on Redstate
The Redstate community is considerably smaller and tighter knit than dailykos, so I had read kowalski before. He is by no means a liberal or a democrat. He is a redstater through and through.... at least he was until this most recent Republican Scandal.
Folks, this is my last post on RedState. The simple fact is that for the last two years I think all of us have worked very hard, for free, to try to bolster a Republican majority that hasn't deserved our support. I've given hundreds of dollars and hundreds of hours of my time, and I'm deeply ashamed of having been a part of this movement, and I think that Dave Winer of Scripting News has it right:
Here's a Democrat that gives Republicans their due. Republicans broke the law, covered up, and they're going to jail. Ultimately this will be good for the Republican Party, it'll flush out the criminals that took over the party. Any Republican that sits by and says nothing is going down with the evildoers. Maybe sometime in this century it will be safe to vote Republican again, but it sure isn't now.
This scandal will supress the diehard conservative vote. We all know that. But it will also supress conservative activism for a good amount of time too. Republicans are ashamed of themselves:
But unlike Democrats, I feel shame. And I recognize that shame is sometimes a good indication that something is wrong with the way your party is doing things. And it's time that some of the people on the Hill felt some shame, in my view. In the meantime, I cannot in good faith continue to put a positive spin on Republicans in this election. Their actions have been a needless disgrace on so many occasions that I cannot in good faith be a positive voice here any longer. And so I have decided that until that changes, I have nothing else to say.
Digs at Democrats aside, we DO have shame. We were all ashamed by the Democrats who voted for torture. We resolved to remove those Democrats ASAP.
The whole thread is worth a read. Its really neat to see the internal squabbles that are most likely going on in the heads, homes, and churches of conservatives around the country.
Lets hope the kowalskis of the world win out, both for Democrats running in November, and for the modern Republican party which desperately needs a wakeup call.