Facts are funny things democrats... fact we freed slaves and saved the country... fact democrats want slaves and the destruction of the country...
No. Oh, you silly, silly man. Lincoln would repudiate the party if he were alive today.
Fact: If the last good and worthy thing the Republicans did was fifty years or so ago, your party sucks.
They've done a few worthy things since, but most of those have been in cooperation with the Democrats. And a lot of the Republicans who worked with them on that would not fit in today's GOP. Honorable men like Jacob Javits and Richard Lugar got primaried out.
Let me use John McCain as an example:
* 1982: McCain runs for Congress for the first time, for the House. He gets elected to the Senate in 1986. At the time, he is considered a loyal foot-soldier in the Reagan Revolution, a staunch conservative. (Have you ever seen a liberal described as "staunch"? I can't recall ever seeing that.)
* 2000: McCain runs for the Republican nomination for President for the first time. Many people in his own party call him a "moderate," not a "true conservative" like George W. Bush.
* 2008: McCain finally gets the GOP Presidential nomination, because the "true conservatives" are divided, and there's no single candidate around whom they can coalesce and make the "anti-McCain." Many notable conservatives complain, actually calling McCain a "liberal."
John McCain's politics have hardly changed at all in the last 30 years. He is not a liberal, and he is not a moderate: He is very conservative. But his party has lurched to the right. The mainstream of the GOP has moved so far right, they can't see the mainstream of America with binoculars.
How long was your ban for?