Maya Keyes and GOP Abandonment

Elaborating on what I was discussing yesterday, I posted to Kos a brief history of the Maya Keyes situation, as well as my impressions of it.

This is the difference between Democrats and Republicans.  The GOP is the party of abandonment.  They've abandoned the poor, the working class, the farming community, the elderly, disabled veterans, at-risk youth, teen mothers, and countless others.  And now, through this story, we learn that they abandon their own kids if it turns out they don't meet their expectations.  And they do it with shocking regularity.  It goes without saying that this abandonment stands in sharp contrast to the empty rhetoric of "family values."  

We do not abandon anyone.  We believe in the rights of man.  We stand with Maya Keyes, a great American, to speak out against GOP abandonment and for progressive values.  

We will not be silent any longer.