Thursday, September 23, 2010

The Death Throes of the Grand Old Party.

Gentlebeings we are watching the death throes of a great political party.  Among my other youthful peccadillos was being a Young Republican.  The great sin of the modern Republican party is allowing the tin-foil hat brigade of unbalanced conspiracy theorists (Birthers, Tenthers,etc) not just to take over, but the dominate policy discussions.

The Republican party has three ideas 1) Cut taxes 2) Scare white people, 3) Repeal the New Deal/Social Democratic settlement.  1) is nearly universally popular, so much so that it has become a talismanic formula for Republican politicians.  2) is very much in evidence in the southern United States. However, as a strategy is demographically suicidal.  Look at how they have alienated the Hispanic vote to appeal to the Nativist sentiments. 3) is the third rail of American politics, but they are too obsessed to understand.

All in all very sad.