Yeah, seriously. Here's the deal: the Republican rank-and-file are basically a pack of clueless morons. Don't believe me? Then how else would you explain that these folks continue to embrace an economic ideology and program that has proven itself to be a failure whenever and wherever it has been tried? In that they are no different from their marxist counterparts who continue to tout the virtues of a centrally planned state owned economy.

Go back and read the dire predictions conservatives were making in the debate over the Clinton tax hikes in the early 1990's. (For that matter just go back and read the assurances we were hearing from conservatives that weapons of mass destruction would be found in Iraq.)

After you've done that, then come back here and try to convince me that conservatives aren't a pack of Kool Aid drinkers who know little more than what they consume by watching the infotainment on Fox News.