'A ton of weirdness' is ripping apart the Republican Party: conservative
Raw StoryReacting to polling that the Republican Party is out of step with the American public when it comes to abortion rights, conservative columnist Matt Lewis -- who is strongly anti-abortion -- said the GOP has gone to such an extreme on the issue that even he can't support them. During a Monday morning appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Lewis said the extremists who have taken over the GOP are destroying the party. "I do believe that there is a ton of weirdness happening in the Republican party, obviously," he told the Morning Joe panel. "Having said that, from a political standpoint, this is incredibly dangerous right now for the Republican Party for a couple of reasons," he elaborated. The other problem, I think, is that because the Republican party and the right have become so deranged and weird, just plain weird, that it's hard to -- it's really conflated these messages, right?"