A "New" Republican

TheHill.com - Coburn: Deficit spending is bigger moral issue than abortion: "“The greatest moral issue of our time isn’t abortion, it’s robbing our next generation of opportunity,” Coburn told reporters at a breakfast meeting Thursday at the National Press Club. “You’re going to save a child from being aborted so they can be born into a debtor’s prison?” The conservative Republican also criticized his own party, saying voters bounced the GOP from office for their hypocrisy. “It’s not a bad thing power changed last year,” said Coburn, who also criticized President Bush for not doing enough to curb spending."

There are pther signs this may be happenng. Some of what I read about Huckabee is not what you might expect.