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Keyser Soze

On 8/15/17 11:33 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 06:40:33 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

The reality is, in this day and age, I'm not sure there is an entity
that one might describe as a "moderate" Republican. There are a few
elected Republican officials in the U.S. House and Senate who are less
right-wing than most of their Republican colleagues, but I wouldn't
describe them as "moderate." They're just a tad less "way out there"
than their colleagues.

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Don't really consider myself to be a republican, or a democrat for
that matter. I agree with the republicans on some issues, disagree on
others, same with democrats to a certain extent, and the same with
Trump. Certainly Trump has major issues with personality, character
and style but that's not sufficient reason to oppose everything he
supports.

Your position is perfectly reasonable. I have no idea what Trump
supports, other than expediency. There doesn't seem to be much behind
his shifting positions. His total ignorance of the issues appalls me.

I knew quite a few Republicans in my early days as a political hack. The
first campaign I worked on as a professional was for a fellow who was
running against incumbent Michigan governor Bill Milliken. Milliken won,
and no one on our side considered him a bad guy. I also got to know
Gerry Ford when he was a Congressman. He was also a first-class
Republican. When I was recruited by the NEA and sent to NY State, one of
my closest buddies there was a former state congressman from Long Island
who was also a Republican and one of our lobbyists. About a year after I
got to NY, the lobbyist asked me if I had any interest in becoming the
press secretary to U.S. Senator Jacob Javits. I flew down to DC for an
interview with the senator, but decided instead to take an advertising
agency job in D.C. I remained friendly with Javits. I was offered,
strangely enough, a top civil service job in the Nixon administration
with the Department of Agriculture, but wasn't interested. Through my
work writing legislative testimony for a postal union, I got to know
Barry Goldwater. In 1981 and again in 1985, I was offered a top civil
service job with the USPS through the Reagan administrations, possibly
because of a recommendation from Goldwater. After Goldwater retired from
the Senate, it was my honor and privilege to write a few non-political
speeches for him.

All the Republicans I knew as a working professional were honorable men
with whom I did not share much in the way of political positions. I
don't know any Republicans holding national political office whom I
consider honorable and rational. I do like Michael Steele, the former
RNC chairman.

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