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Bill Nelson Agrees With Joe Biden that the GOP has Changed

On Saturday, at the Florida Democratic Party Convention in Walt Disney World, Democrat Bill Nelson, the senior U.S. senator from the Sunshine State, said he agreed with remarks Vice President Joe Biden made about the state of the Republican Party.

In a speech to the convention on Friday night, Biden said the GOP had transformed, noting that the pack of Republican presidential hopefuls and the likes of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., did not congratulate President Barack Obama after the fall of the Gadhafi regime in Libya and the death of that strongman.

This is not your fathers Republican Party, Biden said in the speech.

Sitting down with Sunshine State News on Saturday, Nelson, who is running for a third term in 2012, said he agreed with Biden that the Republican Party was changing. Nelson pointed to the defeat of former U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett at the 2010 Utah Republican convention and to the serious primary challenge facing longtime U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.

Nelson addressed the same theme in a speech at the convention later on Saturday, once again citing the examples of Bennett and Lugar.

You think about how politics has changed, said Nelson, insisting that Republicans were more concerned with playing politics than in leading the nation back to economic recovery.

Nelson said Republicans were acting irresponsibly and attempted to contrast it with the relationship between Ronald Reagan and Tip ONeil during the 1980s.

Repeating Bidens quote about this is not your fathers Republican Party, Nelson offered harsh words for current Republicans. This is a strange kind of extremist, said Nelson.

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