street internationalists could exist side by side with one goal -- beating the democrats. what it mean s to be a republican today ignores much of that. over the past decade the gop has morphed into a group of tea party conservatives who are overly suspicious of government, allied against abortion and motivated by faith. it might be hard to imagine this today, but the word abortion didn't even exist in the republican party platform until 1976 when the party recognized there was a deep divide between those who supported abortion on demand and those who fought to protect life. yes, there also was a time not even that long ago when being a pro-choice republican was considered okay. remember president gerald ford and george h.w. bush when he was picked up by ronald reagan for the vp spot in 1980? while party platforms are often just words, one word didn't often appear in the good old days and that was conservative. we wanted to be known as the moderate or even progressive party. words like faith and heritage rarely appeared until the 1980s. the party that i'm talking about
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