GOP Apostates

salon.com — Democrats speaking at their National Convention didn’t need to make a hard sell about how the Republican Party has been taken over by right-wing ideologues — they had Republicans do it for them. Each night of the convention featured former Republicans who have seen the light and switched sides, and each apostate cited the increasingly shrill rhetoric and hard-right policies of their former party as the reason for their conversion. Nearly every Democratic speaker piled on Romney and Ryan, but the GOP apostates  helped put the candidates at the top of the ticket in the context of the entire ballot, putting a personal face on the Republican Party’s trip over the cliff.

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