So my earlier fears that they were deliberately throwing the election were obviously garbage.

[sibelian]

There is no way that Akin thing is planned theatre. It's just totally destructive for the entire party.

They are complete losers, without a single even vaguely competent politician among them.

Oh, GOP. Where did it all go wrong, hm?

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	It went wrong when they chose to oppose basic human decency.
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	It went wrong when they embraced the fundamentalists.
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	It went wrong when they threw away the concept of government.
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	It went wrong when they got into bed with big business.
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	It went wrong when they decided to get into politics in the first place as they are clearly a shower of carpet-baggers with no ideas.
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	All of the above.
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	All of the above, and more... (please elaborate below, thank you)
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	None of the above, but rather... (please elaborate below, thank you)
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[randome]

1. I think fundamentalism is at the root of it.

When unchecked, it leads to the worship of money and the devaluing of human beings.

[sibelian]

3. I also tend towards this.

The fundies didn't really start getting their teeth into the republicans until Reagan... which was when all the weird stuff started happening...

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. They hijacked the RW with social issues in order to

rob the taxpayers to benefit those funding reelection, pushing the nation further and further to the right.

Now, the true colors are coming out.

Greed ruined the party of Eisenhower and Nixon would be to the left of most Democrats today.

[get the red out]

4. Yes

The result being that the big corporations have basically bought the Churches now, with the GOP acting as "Paypal".

[A-Schwarzenegger]

5. When they went anti-hippies.

[HooptieWagon]

6. I think they're batshit crazy,

yet believe they are mainstream ideology.

[Care Acutely]

7. Here -->

This is when the whack-jobs took firm, irreversible control of the (R)s.

[sibelian]

9. oh my GOD

:-O

that is fifty carat freak out

[mnhtnbb]

8. The fundamentalism thing is going to burn their butts. Too many women

are not going to let them get away with denying them the right to determine
what happens to their bodies.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

10. He'll pull out or be thrown out and it will all be forgotten

And the people of Missouri will reward the dummy who replaces him by voting them in.

The GOP is a total joke, but they'll probably enjoy a decent fall by keeping the House and possibly gaining the Senate (and lose the WH) because deep down there are a lot of stupid people out there.

[sibelian]

11. It will probably galvanise the base.

which will also shrink.