It was a case of accept the prescription drug plan and its concomitant expenditures, or vote for the party that would have put both prescription drugs and socialized medicine in place. It was Hobson's choice -- and there was less threat to individual rights from one party than from the other.

As for the snearing reference to "the Party" which I assume was an attempt to associate Republicans with either Nazism or Communism -- Democrats hew to party lines, too. It's and equal opportunity snear.