Darryl Glenn Quotes

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

As the Republicans run to the crazy Tea Party right, they leave behind the huge mass of genuinely moderate and independent Americans that make up the majority of voters. The ones that used to consider themselves now-extinct moderate Republicans. They're up for grabs. And the Democrats have to grab them!

There aren’t any independents anymore.

It's not like Massachusetts, where they're baptized Democrats.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

I think if you look all across the country, the so-called Blue Dogs are all gone to kennel. There are no more Blue Dogs, they're called Republicans. People would rather elect consistently conservative Republicans than Blue Dogs, who are only conservative when it's convenient.

There are lots of bad Republicans, there are no good Democrats.

If Strom Thurmond could get 30% of the black vote, any Republican can.

But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time.

The fact is that the Democratic Party in modern times has always had a conservative wing, one frequently as strong or stronger than its liberal wing, and as such, when progressives speak of the party as a vehicle that naturally belongs to them, as if by right - until conservatives stole it from them - they weaken progressivism.

Competition for votes sends parties in a two-party system toward the center.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between politicians of either major party.

I don't see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat.

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.

Republicans are so far out to the right, it's pushing people into the Democratic Party.

My parents were Democrats, and I was a Democrat. And John Wayne was a Republican.

I grew up in a place that didn't have any Democrats, or if there were Democrats they weren't talking about it.

When Trump was elected, there were three parties in Washington: the Trump party, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.

The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them.