To my Republican friends

I first became aware of politics in 1949 or 1950 mostly from adults talking. People that worked in the “mill” were Democrats. People like doctors and bankers were Republicans.

And I learned that people associated with illegal gambling and former “rum runners” were also Republicans. As a kid I understood that to those Republicans the Coatesville Police were OK but they were constantly on the lookout for State Police.

Until fairly recently Richard Legree dominated the Republican Party in Coatesville. Lisa Johnson has always worked in Republican Tim Hennessey’s Coatesville office as Hennessey’s business manager, that is up until she plead guilty to her part in a Coatesville drug business.

But there is something that did not exist among Chester County Republicans in the 1950s. The Republican Party nationwide and GOP leaders here are not just people like doctors and bankers. They are, I think extremely dangerous extremists like West Chester’s own Colin Hanna and Sara Palin, Joe Miller and Sharon Angle.

I just can’t see how anyone here who calls himself a Republican can hold his head high.