Bruce Bartlett has an interesting column in Forbes:
Once upon a time, the Republican Party opposed open-ended entitlement programs like Medicare as a matter of principle, often paying a heavy political price for doing so. But those days are gone. Today, the GOP not only doesn't oppose entitlements, it has become their defender. This is perhaps the biggest reversal in American politics since the Democrats went from being the party of Southern racists for 150 years to being the party of civil rights in the 1960s.An article well worth your time.
