Garrison Keillor: Something has gone seriously haywire with the Republican Party.

more good news: liza featherstone has joined the panel discussion that will follow this land is your land tomorrow evening. featherstone stories at the nation. featherstone stories at alternet. garrison keillor: something has gone seriously haywire with the republican party. full text posted to interesting people. via mis. august 26, 2004 something has gone seriously haywire with the republican party. once, it was the party of pragmatic main street businessmen in steel-rimmed spectacles who decried profligacy and waste, were devoted to their communities and supported the sort of prosperity that raises all ships. they were good-hearted people who vanquished the gnarlier elements of their party, the paranoid roosevelt-haters, the flat earthers and prohibitionists, the antipapist ant...