A glimmer of hopeIlsa and I were having dinner last night with a good friend who happens to be a Republican, and I was ragging on her party’s abandonment of virtually all the principles on which it used to be based, until she politely changed the subject. Towards the end of the evening, the couple next to us got up to leave, and as the gentleman was passing me he touched me on the shoulder and said, “By the way, I like the way you think. I’ve been a Republican my whole life, and I keep asking myself who these people are and what they have done to my party.”
Of course, this is Northern California, where even the right-wing radio personalities are pretty reasonable.
