GOP's Utah and Maine conventions show a party coming unglued

Future historians tracing the crackup of the Republican Party may well look to May 8, 2010, as an inflection point.

That was the day, as is now well known, that Sen. Robert Bennett, who took the conservative position 84 percent of the time over his career, was deemed not conservative enough by fellow Utah Republicans and booted out of the primary.

Less well known, but equally ominous, is what happened that same day, 2,500 miles east in Maine. There, the state Republican Party chucked its platform -- a sensible New England mix of free-market economics and conservation -- and adopted a manifesto of insanity: abolishing the Federal Reserve, calling global warming a "myth," sealing the border, and, as a final plank, fighting "efforts to create a one world government."

One world government? Do our friends Down East fear an invasion from the Canadian maritime provinces? A Viking flotilla coming from Iceland under cover of volcanic ash?

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/14/AR2010051402450.html

Once the two are combined there's evidently the tea bagger effect.

May it continue to cause strife and division among Republicans well into the fall elections.

...in the form of interlocking Corporate boards. And these fools are helping speed that day.

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if they support the Maine GOP Platform. I'd love to hear the answer.

The Republicans thought they could harness the teabagger virus and use it only against Democrats. It isn't working that way.