Obama — What Happened To The Republican Party?

“[They] embraced wild conspiracy theories like those surrounding Benghazi. Or my birth certificate. Rejected science, rejected facts on things like climate change. Embraced a rising absolutism from a willingness to default on America’s debt by not paying our bills, to a refusal to even meet, much less consider, a qualified nominee for the Supreme Court because he happened to be nominated by a Democratic president. None of this conservative. I don’t mean to pretend I’m channeling Abraham Lincoln now, but that’s not what he had in mind, I think, then he helped form the Republican Party. It’s not conservative. It sure isn’t normal. It’s radical.”