Thomas, one of the original founders of Redstate, blasts the GOP field in a GBCW diary:
First: I have withheld any statement of support for any GOP Presidential candidate because it seemed like bad idea, as a Director of the site, to make such an endorsement, and -- God, how I've waited to say this -- because the whole damned lot can go to Hell. What an incompetent mass of horse rear-flesh bound up in what, on paper, is one of the most talented groups the GOP has ever had. I could go on, but the full thing is in my concurrently posted piece, And the horses you all rode in on, one at a time, then rotate.
"An incompetent mass of horse rear-flesh..." "The whole damned lot can go to Hell."
He reserves special approbium for Willard Romney:
His freaking political campaign is a cult, and I could have been one of his supporters but for the cult he founded. A pox on everyone formally associated with the campaign, and indeed, everyone ever formally associated with that cult.
In a related diary, Thomas says Romney's campaign is "run like a cult-of-personality version of Amway," and accuses Romney's campaign of trying to astroturf RedState.
Thomas describes Romney accurately and thusly:
And yet, we're probably stuck with you, because of the incredible incompetence of your opponents. On the Wonder Years, an otherwise awful and highly forgettable show, the narrator once noted that his parents faced a conundrum when deciding how to decorate the kitchen. Dad would insist on some tile he liked. Mom would insist on some tile she liked. They'd compromise on some tile no one in our species liked.
You are that tile, Mitt. You are the "Eh," Candidate. Congratulations.
Huckabee? "And I'll go to my grave before I support you." Yikes!
Whenever I find myself confused about who to vote for in the upcoming Primary, I console myself with the fact that "It's all good." I probably wouldn't vote for Hillary in the primary, but I won't mind voting for her in the general. Her or any other Democratic candidate. But when I look at the GOP side, I almost feel sorry for the poor bastards.
Not only is the GOP falling apart along the predictable fault lines, none of their candidates are even generating anything like enthusiasm. With the exception of Ron Paul, who is so hated by the GOP establishment, he is being excluded from the New Hampshire debate by Fox, despite the fact he has raised more money than almost any other candidate and is polling at twice the level of Fred Thompson, who recently declared that he doesn't want to be President too badly.
And speaking of Fred, Fox and RedState, even though Thomas doesn't like Fred because he's Hamlet (You had a ready, built-in, national base of support begging you to run. They waited. You waited. They waited. You announced and......let everyone decide you didn't want the job.), the rest of RedState loves him and
is pissed at Fox for NOT loving him:
I used to cringe whenever by Eagleyed
my more liberal friends would refer to FNC as the "FAUX NEWS CHANNEL."
Since Fred Thompson declared his candidacy and they declared their war on him, FAUX NEWS CHANNEL have proven their true worth to me. Which is less than nothing.
Ouch!
Even RedState notices how much Roger loves Rudy:
It is a real shame, as at one time they were truly fair and balanced, but their agenda has gotten not only more liberal in the last year, but they also were such Rudy cheerleaders that it became sickening.
The folks at Fox News have become drunk on their own success, and just like most news outlets, they think they are the "smartest people in the room" and that their beloved audience would not catch on. Only one thing that hurts these folks is to lose ratings, and have the worth of their advertising dollars shrink.
God bless Fred Thompson!!!
The Primary Wars have been terrible here at Kos. But at least diarists have fire, passion and love for their candidates. And as vitriolic the flame wars have been, I have no doubt that we will close ranks and support whoever is nominated. Maybe it wont be our first or second choice, but our field is deep and I will be happy with the top eight or so. Think about that and smile. On the other hand, Republicans are telling their candidates to fuck off And the horses you all rode in on, one at a time, then rotate.
Think about that and smile a lot more.
[Postscript 09:30 PM]: This diary has got me to thinking: if none of these clowns are up to the task, who is? (No Zombie Reagans - he'd outraise Paul, outsmart Huckabee and show more signs of life than Thompson.) It seems to me that the Republicans may actually be in existential crisis. If there were a better candidate than the current field, he (or she) would be running. But he or she isn't. I can't think of a single Republican not in the race right now who would be acceptable to the party machinery. Ideas?