“For the better part of three decades, there has been no more prominent family in Republican politics than the Bushes.
But tough talk about the state of the party on Monday by former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida — who went so far as to say that Ronald Reagan and his father would have a “hard time” fitting in during this Tea Party era — exhibited a growing distance between the family, which until not very long ago embodied mainstream Republicanism, and the no-compromise conservative activists now driving the party.”
From The New York Times:
Jeb Bush Questions G.O.P.’s Shift to the Right
Mr. Bush said today’s Republican Party is out of step with the legacy of his father and Ronald Reagan.
Stephen Kuusisto
Director
The Renee Crown University Honors Program
University Professor
Syracuse University
Planet of the Blind 
Two recent items that support this sentiment are a Bill Moyers segment about recent comments made by Tea Party Republican Allen West that were Joseph McCarthy resurrected, and an interview with Ann Gust Brown, the wife of democratic California governor Jerry Brown talking about her family and person Republican roots. Of the clips that Moyers uses in this 10-minute segment, the most powerful is of a Republican senator who just plain publicly freaks out over McCarthy’s bullying tactics. It was so powerful and so courageous, a “naked emperor” moment.
Eisenhower Republicans are really in a fix, because they can’t muster a majority against the Democrats without Tea Party types, but even they know how dangerous they are to maintaining even a modest semblance of democracy in the U.S.
Here are the links to both:
http://billmoyers.com/segment/bill-moyers-essay-the-ghost-of-mccarthyism/
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/06/opinion/la-oe-morrison-gust-brown-governor-california-20120606
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