Interesting article. It was written by somebody who lives in my congressional district, and I can relate to everything she says. The last Republican I voted for was former congressman Joe Schwartz, a moderate and pragmatic politician who was fiscally conservative but moderate and completely rational on social issues. He was an honest man (a rare thing in politics today) who represented his district well. Sadly, he was replaced by a right-wing bible thumping kook named Tim Walberg, a lunatic teabagger who rivals Louie Gohmert for sheer stupidity. Schwartz was a casualty of Michigan's sad transition into the goober state of Michissippi.
http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2015/07/no_gop_moderates_polarization.html