Brian Jones Quotes
It's interesting that at a time when she could have differentiated herself from the ranks of [Democratic National Committee Chairman] Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi and the far left ranks of the Democratic Party, she chose to join those on the front ranks of the blame game, It would have been interesting if she had shown some level of restraint.
Jones, Brian. Statement for the Republican National Committee. Quoted by The Associated Press, 2005.
In 2012, the Republicans were a very narrow party; almost all Republicans were quite conservative. In contrast, the Democrats had conservatives, liberals and socialists at the same time. When the Democrats accomplished something, if they talked much about it, the conflicts within the party would be ripped open and there would be democrats attacking the democratic accomplishments along with the Republicans. Historically, it was not always such. In the 1940s for example, it was the reverse where the Republicans were generally more quiet about their accomplishments than the Democrats who were divided only on race relations and civil rights and unified on most else.
Simon Cameron had switched parties from Democrat to Republican. Lincoln said of him:
Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones was an English musician and composer, best known as the founder and original leader of the Rolling Stones. Initially a slide guitarist, Jones went on to play a wide variety of instruments on Rolling Stones recordings and in concerts, including rhythm guitar, lead guitar, sitar, dulcimer, various keyboard instruments such as piano and mellotron, marimba, wind instruments such as harmonica, recorder, saxophone, as well as drums, vocals and numerous others.