What's A Republican?

Do you Remember Sen John McCain? The one who ran for president against Barack Obama? He's fallen on something like hard times. By that I mean he went from being an independent Republican maverick to conservative Republican who tows the mark, to now, a man in an uphill fight to hold his Arizona Senate seat, and clearly leaning towards Libertarianism. But if you think that's bad, you need to look at some other Republicans. Like Angel, the lady running for the Senate in Nevada and Mr Paul, running in Kentucky, both on the Republican ticket, both Libertarians. Both representing anything but sanity. Now don't get me wrong, the Democrats have their share of problems and problem people, but nothing like the Republicans. What happened to the Republican party? I used to be a Republican. But the GOP of today is nothing like the GOP of the past. They love to point to Ronald Reagan as though he's their idol, but they seem to be against most of what he stood for. They've changed. They seem to want to rewrite history to read like the current GOP manifesto. Think I'm wrong? Look at Texas. The State Board of Education has rewritten the history book of American history. They don't even mention slavery. They call it something like Three Product Trade, or something like that. Suggesting that slavery was just a good business practice, I guess. And that's just one of many. So what if Texas wants to teach it's students dumb things? Because they buy for the whole state instead of just one school district. The publishers choose their version for everyone. So your school may well be stuck with it. So, is it possible that the Republicans can win with these strategies? Do people really care so little about what happens to themselves? When will sane people take back the Republican Party?