I over the last 48 hours or so, I have been in deep thought about the future of MFCR and of the Republican Party. I have come to the conclusion that I no longer want to be the leader of the Mississippi Federation of College Republicans. I refuse to simply let people break the rules and think they don't have to answer for their actions, admit they were wrong, or even apologize. When I ran for Chairman in the spring, I ran to be Chairman of the Mississippi Federation of College REPUBLICANS, not the Mississippi Federation of College "Tea Partiers". Also, I believe that the Republican Party has allowed these groups of extremist to have too much of a voice and because of that, the platform of the Republican Party has shifted too far to the right in my opinion. For example, the drastic cuts on needed federal funding that these groups of Republican extremists support would leave society weak and crippled. Secondly, their far right stance on immigration is not only ignorant, but it is cruel. After all our country is a nation of immigrants and should welcome immigrants from every country. My father was an immigrant from Cuba and came to America in 1959 because of the freedom that this nation offers. This freedom should be available to each and every individual that wants to come work hard and pursue his or her goals in America. Finally, I believe the Republican Party has not done enough to put a stop to the hatred and cruel words and actions of the far right extremist in the party. The Republican Party consistently says they are trying to appeal to minorities, but this will never happen when we allow members of party to say cruel and ignorant things about Women, African Americans, Hispanics, and other minorities in our country. I simply cannot be apart of organization that have members who support these far right extremist views, much less be the Chairman of the organization. So in conclusion, I, Evan Alvarez, am hereby resigning my position as Chairman of the Mississippi Federation of College Republicans, as well as my membership at the Mississippi State Chapter of MFCR. This change is effective immediately!

You made the right choice. Their hatred and cruelty knows no bounds.

If only!

Then I went to college.

And read.

And listened.

And read some more.

Needless to say, I didn't come out of college a Republican.

I suspect these situations are only going to get more numerous for the Grandpa's Old Piles to contend with as time marches on . . .

It was the early 90s. I grew up in an upper middle class white suburb. Went to a large university where i suddenly found myself around a lot of people from all different walks of life I had never encountered before.

And it was WONDERFUL.

as the loonies on the right cause an exodus from the GOP.

Do we need any more proof that the Democratic Party is center-right? If we were truly left of the Republicans, the people leaving now would become libertarians, independents, or start another party (the ASR, perhaps: "Almost Sane Republicans&quot .

More Reagan Democrats.

their intent is to shape the dem party to look more and more like the so-called moderate republican platform.

Hopefully he won't come across the ideological "my way or the highway" snobs that exist on this thread.

The more who join our ranks, the better.

Look at it this way: if you were running an anti-racism organization, do you really think your cause would be helped by having KKK members join en masse?

than a young Republican.

Smart man that Mr. Alvarez.

I assume he's changed and regrets his previous affiliation with a party of hatred, greed, and closed minds and not suddenly become aware of what the GOP really is. The Tea Party has been a fascist loving assortment of racist hate mongers since they've existed.