Thomas Paine was a wise man... I give you the first paragraph of Common Sense. Feb. 1776

Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in the defence of custom. But tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.


Given Grace's above example... And we all know many more can be found and talked about, from BOTH the D and R side.... Isn't it time to put the petty division of parties behind us? All they accomplish is to keep us fighting each other.