REPUBLICANS: "My God, what (an effing) mess---A loss is what the GOP's political class NOW expects."

[HughBeaumont]

49. "eminently winnable"?

Where the HELL did they get THIS notion? I don't give a shit HOW bad things are (and as it turns out, albeit glacially, economic indicators are getting better than 7 months ago), the GOP's candidates are total goddamned religious right-appeasing whack-nut LOSERS who are still deeply entrenched in the Bewsh 00s and the Reagan 80s. President Obama may not be the progressive people thought he'd be (myself not included, I never believed that), but is putting someone worse than Bewsh in office, if that's even humanly possible, the solution to what ails America?

Logically explain to me WHICH ONE of their candidates could ever have been passed off as a moderate? RMoney with his perpetual stream of wealth-favoring/Red-baiting gaffes and more flops than an unwatered fish? Bibleman Rick Santorum with his openly racist, sexist and anti-gay screeds? Newt Gingrich, who has more baggage than LAX and failed miserably as Speaker? Ron Paul with his pro-corporate, anti-poor, anti-choice, rocket ride to SomaliAmerica agenda?

Here's the other perplexing thing about that "eminently winnable" statement: every single candidate not only steadfastly refuses to renounce Reaganomics, a loser of a program that's so obviously failed 95% of the country for 31 years, but chooses to run with a more extreme version of it. Are Americans REALLY going to tell me that the sensible thing to do to ail this economy is put someone in there to enact draconian measures even WORSE than what Bewsh's were? Need I remind people what the 00's were like?

(and yes, I know we still haven't veered from Bewsh policies. I'm holding out hope that Obama's going to wake up and at least finally allow the spectacularly damaging Bewsh Tax Cuts to expire once re-elected. I hope.)

Things are just not that bad that a majority of Americans are going to vote for a whack job not named "Bush".