Shrinking The Tent

Oopsie. Seems like the rethugs are heading for a cliff...


http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/09/shrinking-the-tent.html#more

Shrinking The Tent


David Frum continues his debate with David Horowitz:



David has ammunition in the latest NYT poll. It shows some cooling on Obama - but only from ridiculously high levels. But the verdict on Republicans is devastating:



In stoking the base, the GOP has persuaded the center that they are not a serious party interested in governing.

difficulty the Republican Party is likely to have moving forward.

If you repel the moderates of either party, you can't govern and eventually can't hold seats up and down the ballot.

The louder the nutbags squawk about stem cell research, the Ten Commandments in the classroom, and gay marriage, the greater the gains by the Madison-Jefferson wing of the republic.

In the web age of electoral politics, George Allen can't use terms like "macaca" and get away with, and he did use that term and he did not get away with it. A far better Senator sits in that seat right now.

In aligning with the crazies and religious nutbags, the GOP has locked itself in the shithouse.

The other day I heard someone on the radio discussing how there are two rushpublican parties...the loud and the silent one. The loud we all know...Dreck, Limbo, Bachmann and the usual cast of crazies. The silent are those like Frumm and the "regular party" types...the careerists who saw the GOOP go from full control in 2006 to the exact opposite 2 1/2 years later. They see the crazies chasing away the moderates and many of the "regulars" don't see the crazies as "real rushpublicans"...they only tolerated them for their votes but now they have been overtaken by the monster they helped unleash.

Despite all the bluster, the GOOP is in dire straits going into 2010...with the crazies calling the party's agenda and the "regulars" forced to the edges and having to defend the crazies. It's a recipe for a real disaster should the party continue to head off the cliff and not make any serious gains next year. There's a long due "accounting" due in that party...put off the excesses of the booosh years and it could rip the GOOP apart. If the "regulars" push the crazies out, it could lead to a third party that will destroy the party. Let the crazies continue to run the show and never win a national election.

Bottom line is their "regulars" are the real political wimps. No spine, no conviction, just the craven need/desire for money and power. It's led them to coop their party to the extremes with little will or ability to reign in those who are helping completely destroy the party.

Couldn't happen to a bunch of bigger losers.

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AWOL is one of their perverted, diaper-clad Family Values.

AWOL is one of their perverted, diaper-clad Family Values.

It will take the best doctors they've got, and they ain't got no good doctors. Palin is vacuously stupid. Romney is slobberingly ambitious. Huckabee is Sunday-school charming on the outside and batshit insane on the inside -- as crazy and as slick as Falwell ever was.

Pawlenty looks and sounds like he's running for class treasurer of his middle school.

Jindal is politically clueless and unsettling in that "Ya know, I'm an exorcist" sort of way.

The Republican brain wasn't that big or functional in the first place. The far-Right tumor consuming it looks to be in control at the moment.

Best to sit the family down out in the lobby and have a little chat.

the GOP! :D

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I hope your basement is well stocked! But they do seem to be imploding when the likes of Frum can write this scathing critique.

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Brilliant characterization, my good man.

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Haven't had time to hang around much here, but it's great to know that when I do, I can find quippery of this high order.
Hope you're well!

I love that knack you have with words.

the last dozen or so advertizers pull ads from Beck's show.

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Make room buddy :hi:!