Let this sink in: The Republican Party has chosen a birther/bigot as its presidential candidate.

[struggle4progress]

11. Their track record in recent years doesn't seem to have been particularly good

They gave us Tricky Dick, who turned out to be such a POS that even the Rs were going to have to vote for his removal if he stayed in office

They gave us St Ronnie d'Teflon, who increasingly confused movies with history and whose administration contained a remarkable number of crooks, culminating in an illegal war run from the White House basement

They gave us Poppy and Sonny. Later they offered us Half-Baked Alaska as our national insurance policy. And then Mittens, who believed that 47% of Americans were government dependents with a sense of entitlement ...

And I supposed to act surprised now that they've come up with yet another air-headed blowhard?