I have to say, I'm starting to wonder if Tony Perkins, the excessively tall (6'7") apostle of the arch-religious-conservative Family Research Council, is a secret Democratic mole. How else to explain the thoroughly delusional statements in his screed blaming Republican moderates for the Rethugs' historic loss last Tuesday? But everyone's most reliable Culture Warrior has a lot more to say below the fold.
I swear, it's as if Perkins doesn't really know that most "moderates" weren't purged from the Republican Party some time ago. To this guy, President Bush rates as a moderate. Conservatives haven't REALLY been running The Party for the last number of years...
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council told CNN that conservatives need to take back control of the GOP if the party is to return to its winning ways.
"Moderates never beat conservatives. We've seen that in past elections," he said.
Rejecting suggestions that the conservative movement was viewed as being out of touch with the electorate, Perkins says the Republican Party needs to go back to basics.
"It's a return to fundamental conservative principles that Ronald Reagan showed work and that people can be attracted to," Perkins said.
I love this. This is precisely what is going to keep us in power for a generation. Go right ahead. Don't make the crucial ideological and philosophical adjustments required to bring the Republican Party into a stance that recognizes reality. After all, it's these closet liberals who hijacked the Republican Party:
He had the temerity to lose! If he'd just been harder-line on immigration, talked up his pro-life record more, and nominated a hard-right conservative as his running-mate, things might have turned out differently! Oh, wait a minute, about that last one...
Do we really need to talk about this guy's record AGAIN!?!?!?!?
But you see, this is all Bush's fault...
David Keene of the American Conservative Union also said the idea of the Republican Party as the party of smaller government was undermined by the rapid increase in government spending over the last eight years.
"Republicans in Congress began to act like the Democrats they'd gotten rid of in the '90s. The president began to spend money like he was Lyndon Johnson, and the result was that voters began to get very upset," Keene said. "So, yes, you have to go back to your basics."
Oh, his usefulness is ended. Under the bus he goes!
Oh, and how about this covert pinko?
Yeah, let's throw him under the bus, too. (By the way, check out those shades! What is he looking at over there?!?!?)
Intellectually bankrupt doesn't begin to describe Perkins. We couldn't ask for a better ally in our collective quest to permanently discredit the Republican party and conservatism in general.
It's really gratifying to see conservative Republicans insisting on continuing to drive the bus off a cliff when the vehicle has already smashed and burned on the rocks. If these guys won't recognize reality when it hits them over the head with a two-by-four, that's the best possible kind of enemy to have. Generals who fight the last war over again are the guys you want opposing you. They're beaten before you even meet them on the battlefield.
Their blood is on the floor. A lovelier sight I have rarely seen. Except, that is, for all of Tuesday night this week.