Another canary in the coal mine. The co-chairman of the Polk County, Iowa GOP has resigned because he doesn’t want to be associated with Rep. Steve King’s racist remarks and he’s tired of all the anti-climate change idiocy and stupid remarks about guns. He said that the party is being led by the NRA and the Christian Right, and it isn’t interested in reforming itself. He figured that if he stuck around, he’d just be enabling the GOP to continue on without making needed changes. So, he reregistered as an independent.
Remember, yesterday, I was conjecturing about the possibility that the Republicans could lose control of the House if they started losing long-time members of their party. I’m sure that there are many people who are feeling the same way this man feels. They haven’t become Democrats, but they’ll consider voting for one now, and they wouldn’t have considered doing that in recent elections.
Everyone has their breaking point, but they don’t all announce it in the papers when their reached it.
