Parker's right about GOP's errant path

Kathleen Parker (Dec. 2, “The GOP suicide pact”) is right that if the Republican Party goes through with the resolution to deny funding and party endorsement to any GOP candidate who does not demonstrate ideological “purity,” it will take itself over a cliff.

Independents and moderates such as myself left the Republican tent long ago because the radical right wingers took over, and party leaders have lost the ability to think.

Republicans have become the party of general religious fanaticism, homophobia, and throwing women back into the Dark Ages (Operation Rescue, Pat Buchanan, James Dobson, the entire religious right, etc.). They have become the party of anti-science (creationism, climate change denial, Sarah Palin), of anti-government lunacy (TEA parties, militias, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh), and wacky conspiracy theories (birthers, death panels, Glenn Beck, every right wing blog).

I also do not agree with the Republican philosophy of rewarding individuals who are wealthy enough to not have to work, while the rest of us are penalized for having to show up for work.

Arnold Levitt

Solon