Grand Old Party
As the last of a long line of Yankee Republicans, I must unhappily concede that I no longer know what my party stands for. Pat Buchanan’s dreary Column Right (Feb. 1), so typical of the voices now speaking for what truly used to be the Grand Old Party, is revealingly silent on how to make America better or improve the quality of life, but never lacking on ways to create issues to retake territory for the GOP.
As the Republican Party lurches inexorably rightward on the way toward trivializing itself out of existence, one can’t help but be struck by the realization that those who now control the party increasingly see and define the world in their own cataclysmic biblical terms. Small wonder that it is becoming increasingly incapable of addressing real problems in a real world with practical solutions.
WINSTON BARKLEY
Temecula
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