...or maybe I should say, WTF GOP?!
I'm an elitist, tree-hugging, New England liberal, so maybe I'm just seeing what I want to see. But does it seem to anyone else that the GOP is in a tailspin, if not in the midst of an unmitigated meltdown? Granted, W's two abyssmal terms didn't do the party any favors, but I can't blame W for the bizarre pattern of behavior of his confreres. I mean, I've always contended that the Republicans were outta touch, but the shit they're pulling lately even amazes me! First putting the Wasilla hillbilly on the bottom of the ticket in 2008 in a tragically misguided attempt to woo disenchanted Hillary voters [ Because issues had nothing to do with their choice. They just wanted to vote for a woman, right? Jeeeeeezuz. ]. THEN, lowering the bar even further by picking Michael Steele as the new RNC chair [ "Look! We gotta black guy too!" ]. THEN, picking Bobby "Slumdog" Jindal to deliver the mother of all humbug responses to Obama's address to congress. Right now the GOP has no clear leader or agenda, other than obstruction. Until they can figure out a way to contribute to fixing the nation's current woes, I think they need to follow the example of the Dems under Reagan, and either get with the program or sit down and stfu.