And I have a problem with that sort of absolutist/black & white thinking. Nothing in politics, or life, is that simple. Nothing.

To me, there is still hope there are enough non-Reagan/Bush Republicans (and there is still a little less than 1/3 of the Republican elected politicians nationally who aren't Reagan/Bush Repubs, and many more at local levels) left to take back their party.

I do view the Reagan/Bush Repubs as evil. But I also view the Democratic Leadership Council and conservative Democrats as evil too.

One party doesn't have a lock on being evil. There is plenty of corruption and amorality going around the political spectrum, on both sides of the fence in the US, and among all the parties in the UK/Ireland. Evil and corruptability isn't partisan--it is quite democratic, in fact.

So to me, when I see someone trying to reduce politics to this absolutist formula of us good them bad, I consider the source.