Rep. Peter King, self-proclaimed moderate and terrorism expert, recently announced that he was thinking about running for President for the GOP. Not that I like King in general, but he does have a point. The ultra-right, commonly known as the Tea Party and its sympathizers, has captured the Republican party and made the GOP a bad joke when running in contested elections—that is, any election outside of win-easy red state politics and gerrymandered GOP districts (King’s district is one of thos...
Published on July 30, 2013 04:00