LOL "This is your Republican party and those are your heavyweights?"

[kpete]

This Is Where All the GOP 'Heavyweights' Went
October 19, 2011 at 4:46PM by Charles P. Pierce



When the history of the current Republican party — and that of the conservative "movement" that absorbed it — is written, historians are going to be amazed how reluctant we all were to point out that the party, locally and nationally, had become almost entirely the province of retrograde crazy people. Chapters will include: "Lindsey Graham: Threat or Menace?"; "The Last Temptation of Dick Lugar"; "How Dwight Eisenhower Became a Socialist", and "Joe Lieberman in the Land of the Friendless." I can't wait, actually.

Because Ezra is a polite young fella, he poses the question politely, asking, essentially, "Is this the best the GOP can do?", rather than asking, as many of us did during the debate last night, "Is this the best you clowns can do? I wouldn't hire these guys to park my car. WTF is wrong with you people, anyway?" And the answer is, yes, this is the best the Republican party can do, anno domini 2011, because this is the Republican party that Republicans have chosen to have over the past 30 years. And they've succeeded, in no small part because the Democratic party utterly failed in its duty to the country to make sure that the Republicans paid a severe price for being out of their minds. And, as I've pointed out before, it's not likely to get better. The state legislatures around the country are well-stocked with future Republican congresscritters who make John Boehner look like Trotsky.

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Haley Barbour's not running because he knows that trying to beat the country's first black president with a former bagman who talks like Boss Hogg and recalls the civil-rights movement as no big deal makes for some pretty sucky optics. Mitch Daniels is George W. Bush's former budget director. Making him president would be like giving Joe Hazlewood another oil tanker. Paul Ryan is the man who wants to send your grandparents out on an ice floe, and his economic plan is as popular as the mange. Bobby Jindal had one moment on the national stage and turned into a national joke. Granted, Chris Christie is a more interesting argument, but I believe he knows the runway is clear in 2016 and, anyway, does he really look up to the last two weeks of a national campaign, when you do 19 cities in 15 states in three days? He's not in any hurry, and I can't blame him.
This is your Republican party and those are your heavyweights?


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[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Charlie Pierce is the shit! K&R nt

[hifiguy]

2. The inmates have been running the Republican lunatic asylum

for quite a while now. This is the inevitable result. The Julius Caesars are mad because the Napoleons got bigger pieces of pie at lunch and the Jesii hate all of them. :crazy:

[FSogol]

3. K & R. n/t

[tularetom]

4. Well, Chris Creosote may actually be one of their heavyweights

[opihimoimoi]

5. The ENTIRE GOPer Party is infected with LOLOitis.....Reasoning impaired they try to appear normal

but, once in the open, their wide eyes are so revealing as they stare and stand motionless

[Drale]

6. I wonder how many of them will enter the race

as independents after the primaries? I hope a bunch so they really split the vote and Obama wins in the biggest land slide in American History.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Pierce is a riot! Loved him when he used to write for 'Altercation'.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

8. Idiot America!

Love Charles Pierce! Thanks for this--great article!