Mark Shields: Who represents America? Another great column by Mark Shields.

The Republican Party has been taken over by globalist neoconservatives and the religious right. There are many lifelong Republicans out there who know deep down their party has abandoned them. Here's a message to those folks. This is no longer the party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, or even Ronald Reagan for that matter.

The new GOP platform: Balance the budget? Yawn. Big, powerful, intrusive government? Love it. Protect the environment? Screw it. The military-industrial complex? Bring it on.