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The truth about the GOP

Brian Derdowski, a former Republican elected official (and a personal mentor), just had a great op-ed published in the Seattle Times on the internal challenges faced by the Republican Party:

The last thing corporate backers of the GOP want is a profound change in the nation's moral climate and values, or a power shift to the states that a strict-constructionist judiciary would create.

After all, Norman Rockwell's virtuous society doesn't spend a lot of money on fancy cars, vacations to exotic places and other luxuries. Global corporate oligarchies don't appreciate red-state notions of local economic power and states' rights. There are historic and obvious conflicts between religious and family values and our consumer society of excess.

The Republican Party may claim to be America's moral compass, but it is financed by interests with a very different agenda. When the corporate elite isn't figuring out how to mislead investors or scam the marketplace, it is peddling its bare-midriff teenybopper fashions and one-idea-fits-all media monopolies.