While I agree about the war, the Republican Party has not "moved so far right in recent years". The GOP has moved hard left under GWB's oxymoronic policy of "compassionate conservatism". Government is bigger under Bush than any Democrat could have ever dreamed.Cooper changed sides, he said, "probably because of the war. And also because the Republican Party has moved so far right in recent years."
I don't know anything about Cooper or his rifles, but I can see that he has no skills at analyzing politics.