Is there such thing as a "liberal Republican?"

[Ardent15]

It seems to me the closest we get are center-right moderates from New England or California.

[Sanity Claws]

1. There used to be but they have become extinct

New York had some liberal Republicans.
Mayor John Lindsay started off as a Republican.
Governor Nelson Rockefeller started off liberal but turned a hard right in the early 1970s.
Senator Jacob Javits was a liberal Republican.

I think the species became extinct sometime in the 1970s.

[Ardent15]

3. Ah, yes. Right around the time Ronnie Raygun became the GOP Messiah...

Ole Ronnie killed off anything and everything "liberal" in the GOP.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. ILLINOIS had a few. This dude named Lincoln, Chuck Percy, Anderson,

a bunch of others.

But alas, they are extinct.

[hedgehog]

2. No, but there used to be Republicans smart enough to know

that there was a difference between reality and rhetoric. They talked right wing, but let the Democrats get about doing what had to be done!

[Duke Newcombe]

4. Yes. Their caucus meets...

...in the restroom of the Greyhound station in DC.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. Every February 30th.

[DFW]

5. My dad had a friend named Charlie Goodell

He was named (I think) to replace Bobby Kennedy for the rest of his Senate term. He was a Republican, but Nixon
and Agnew hated his guts because he wasn't a wild-eyed fanatic. Jake Javits was a family friend, too, although
I didn't know him well.

I think these days even Bob Dole would have been drummed out of the Republican Party as being a "libbrul."
Anyone who is not a froth-at-the-mouth fanatic these days need not apply.

[timeforpeace]

8. Not from our point of view. From theirs, Snowe, Collins, ex-puke Specter, even McCain are liberal.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. There used to be liberal, moderate, and conservative Republicans and Democrats. Now there seems to

be only two names instead of six. One is either a 'liberal' or a 'conservative'.

[cali]

10. gone the way of the dodo, alas. Jeffords and Chafee were the last of them.

[mmonk]

11. Not anymore. They have been purged.

And not enough liberal Democrats to make a difference unless they are willing to fight inside the party as well as the Republicans.

[BlueIdaho]

12. Extinct.

[bamacrat]

13. Yes and there are about 59 in the Senate.