Bravo

Another one has seen the light. Good for him. A conservative and immensely popular blogger has not only ditched but also repudiated America's modern right-wing. Charles Johnson from Little Green Footballs has left the conservative movement and made his announcement in a post last night on the conservative-leaning blog site. Little Green Footballs is one of America's top one hundred blogs, while Johnson is the co-founder of Pajamas Media. His announcement post was called "Why I Parted Ways With The Right", and he renounced the extremism of Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann and Pat Buchanan. Johnson also rejected the online conservative community:

Hatred for President Obama that goes far beyond simply criticizing his policies, into racism, hate speech, and bizarre conspiracy theories (see: witch doctor pictures, tea parties, Birthers, Michelle Malkin, Fox News, World Net Daily, Newsmax, and every other right wing source)...anti-Islamic bigotry that goes far beyond simply criticizing radical Islam, into support for fascism, violence, and genocide. The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff. I won't be going over the cliff with them.

Johnson's rebutal of the right has been coming for a while now. For the last year, Dave Weigel from the non-partisan Washington Independent has been following Johnson's transformation:

Way back in April, I talked to Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs about his very public arguments with fellow "warbloggers" whom, he believed, had gone off the rails. Johnson told me that he'd never considered himself a 'conservative.'

Good for Johnson. America's conservative movement and the Republican Party has been completely taken over by radicalism and the Christian Right. Past party stalwarts like Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon would not be welcome in today's Republican Party, (they are even much more liberal than many of today's Democrats). Even Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush would not pass the GOP's Purity Test.