There Will Be Blood

 

“Thou shalt not speak ill of any Republican. Henceforth, if any Republican has a grievance against another, that grievance is not to be bared publicly.” Gaylord Parkinson, Chairman of the California State Republican Party-- 1965 

Six men are running for the Republican presidential nomination. They are now in New Hampshire and looking ahead to South Carolina. 

Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon were fond of using variations of the Parkinson quote I  used today. 

Political campaigns used to be civil and even cordial, because politics used to be considered a gentleman's game.

Now, it is a no-holds-barred, free for all between small men with huge egos who are desperate to claw their way up from the bottom.  

The talk on the campaign trail is expected to get nasty, and the ads we are likely to see in the coming weeks may be  filled with charges and counter charges as hopefuls struggle for the spirit of the Grand Old Party. 

Republicans like to call themselves the party of Abe Lincoln. It appears that they are not even the party of Ronald Reagan anymore.