In 2008, I spoke out against calling the president a Muslim as if that was a curse. And then in 2012, once again, I was very disturbed about some of the intolerance I was seeing in the party, so I made a statement saying there's a level of intolerance in some parts of the Republican Party. And there was, and I think there still is.

In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right.

When Jerry Springer thinks you've gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.

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