he also annoys me in some ways. He uses Norman, not Norm, and it is often pronounced Nor Man Gold Man on his show....

Norman Goldman was a legal analyst for Ed Schultz a few years back. He got so disgusted with the GOP rigged justice system he quit lawyering and got a gig as a progressive radio talk show host. He is excellent in his legal analysis on his show. He is also a very entertaining progressive talker. He is on 760 am in Denver but he works out of LA I believe.

A while back he said just what I posted about the GOP. And he had a number of very good reasons why they are no longer a legitimate political party.

The most un-American bunch in my life-time.

My only hope (and may turn out to be valid) is that this "doubling down" is the desperate act (or acts) of a party that knows damn well its time is almost up and they're going for it all right now; they can see the demographic writing on the wall and know it's now or never for them. Kind of like a cornered animal being at its most dangerous.

If they don't prevail now, they never will. Then it'll be all over for them.

If you want to get rid of the GOP, you would have to split the US into at least three pieces: The territories south of the Mason Dixon line as it currently is (much further north and of different shape than originally configured), the north eastern regions starting with Vermont, and the pacific coastal states down to San Francisco (CA would have to be split in two.)

Since this is impossible (short of another civil war), one can't say that GOP doesn't belong. The GOP is the seamy side of the American culture, like a really bad relative who won't go away because he is part of the family - you are stuck with it. Also remember that the core ideology of the current GOP is what the Southern Democratic Party was before civil rights were enforced. The GOP will go on morphing into whatever reflects the cultural shadow of the US - in the Jungian sense.

There is no way to get a divorce for sure. Even GOP supporters and independents are kind of demented if they think tinkle down economics will ever work. What we have in the last recession is really only the beginning of the consequences of what the GOP wants. And the consequences will be just as bad for the GOP supporters.
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Imagine what this country would be like if we had over 150,000,000 people with no access to health care. And that we had a 30% unemployment rate with no food stamps, no unemployment insurance, or welfare not to speak of other programs that would not exist.

What they are up to is so immense that it is hard to imagine.

there would be no place for him in today`s republican party.

there will be a huge purge in the republican party.

If Romney goes down in flames, they will say it's because he was too moderate and a RINO. They will use it as an excuse to push the party even further to the extreme right.

to make laws, the law should be coming after them for the criminals that they are.

still vote in large numbers for their candidates thanks, in large measure, to a non-stop ongoing right wing smear and slander campaign against Democrats/Progressives.

All that the OP stated is true. Dems need to do a much better job of defining themselves as well as enunciating the many evils of the opposition. Too many people are unaware of the facts and consistently vote against their own self-interest.

love him!