Here's my thoughts on it...

Those who wanted the Republicans to be in power let it happen. The morons, bigots, and flat out fruitcakes on the extreme right were let in, and the muckety-mucks thought "hey, we can just let them think we agree with those fruitcakes, so long as they vote for us"...

Now, there's so many of them that the Republicans *must* have them in order to win an election.

If you are a conservative and/or vote Republican, then these are your compatriots...these are the guys that you depend upon to get your candidates elected...you can no longer do it without them.

Now I think most of the Republican candidates, even if they pander to these idiots and bigots, don't really believe the crap they have to say in order to get their votes...but, unfortunately, some actually do believe it, and now they have the base to get to positions of real power.

In comes McConnell, Palin, Cain, Perry, Santorum...these people are not just fruitcakes, but most of them are certifiably crazy, too...yet, there they are, right on top of the Republican heap.

The Republicans who let those morons and bigots keep saying what they were saying without stopping them are the ones who are to blame. They danced with those morons so that they could get their votes, and now they are married to them.

Only the complete destruction of the Republican Party will be able to get rid of them, unfortunately...I can't think of any other way.

The patients are running the nuthouse.

Andy, I know you and Hank personally, have hung out plenty of times with both of you, and clearly I don't think either of you are morons or bigots...but where were you guys when the Republican Party was letting those nutjobs into the fold?

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend" sounds great on paper...but that's how we ended up with Osama bin Laden and a dozen other puppet dictators around the world that don't like us much after a few years.

We saw what happened with OBL...he turned on the USA, 9/11 happened, and now he's dead.

The TeaBaggers are turning on the Republican Party now...will the Republican Party have enough fortitude to demand the morons and bigots either shape up or ship out? Will they demand that their candidates denounce those jackasses, or will they continue to watch a debate full of clowns take turns arguing over who is the most like them?

This is a real turning point for the Republican Party...either they fully embrace the nutcases and be the Tea Party, or they dump them and take a few years to re-build a political party full of conservative thinking, but not moronic and bigoted voters and candidates?

I think they'll continue to be co-opted by the 'Baggers...and things like facts, logic, and "intellectuals" (i.e., thinkers) will be further pushed right out of the picture.

Fish on...

Todd