Aloha Todd:

Whist the Party of Lincoln still has members who do not exactly meet the my criteria, it's leadership continually  panders to a core of "geriatric, poorly educated, bitter white men", a.k.a. the grass roots and /or the Tea Party.

The current Republican Party is reminiscent of the Know-Nothing or American Party of the late 1840s and the early 1850s.  It was also xenophobic, ethnocentric and nativist.

Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney perfectly epitomize todays Republican senior statesman...old, white and terminally out of touch.

In closing it is not I who miniaturized the GOP, it was the Grand Old Party that accomplished that feat.