The morning rush into Newport News is crazy as ever...These people are crazier than New York City drivers! But the sun is bright, no clouds to speak of and man the view from the balcony overlooking the water is picture perfect.
The Virginian-Pilot doesn't seem too pessimistic, but good grief the nation is tearing itself apart. Early Jump
I have reached the conclusion that Pubbies have been driven nuts....not "are just nuts," but really flogged and stampeded into total nuttery. I saw this stupid outburst from John Bolton screaming about cutting Social Security to feed the Pentagon over at think progress and was sort of shocked....the Pubbies have to defend this loon.
Then Allen West shoots off his mouth about Muslims not wanting to be slimed...his reply, NUTS. Yeah, just "NUTS." Pubbies have to defend this guy too.
Then Santorum and Gingrich claim moral issues have driven the economy into the dirt...Not the corporations who sent Jobs to corrupt China, or ran away to Bermuda and Ireland to incorporate in order to evade taxes. Damn, the Republicans have to swallow this pap and smile at the same time...Phew!
Limbaugh does cartwheels "on the monestary wall" over Obama's color and Pubbies have to defend him and snicker about it no matter how wretched and gross the fat bastard is...Rush must be saved.
I know Pubbies have been driven crazy when when science and very real CO2 and Methane buildup and our part in releasing so much CO2 is denied/quibbled over by otherwise intelligent people simply because this is the party line.
Yet, the farther off Pubbies travel on the political crazy train the farther they travel away from mainstream America. It isn't just the flaky news media that won't call a nut a nut or the churches who are blowing gaskets over a man who might be blowing his lover in a state of marraige, instead of at a back alley gloryhole where they risk arrest for indecency. No matter how completely trivial and even picayune the issue is to most folks (who could utterly care less about who wants to get married so they can cornhole in wedlock, so long as it isn't a 'surprise' from their son), the Pubbie has to howl with fear and indignation about gay marraige. It seems to be the Republican leadership in general. They want fear. Why? Because they feel it is the only way they can win.
One of my neighbors here is an old retired Senior Chief Petty Officer who I met during the Vietnam War and this man is so Republican that he smells like elephant dump, he is so Republican, (Just kidding Billy), anyway my old friend just shakes his head when he looks at the Republican field. "It's disgusting, utterly disgusting...look at these fools...the ones that sound half way decent don't get a vote, but that goofy broad that sounds like she needs Thorizine walks away the winner...I don't get it!" At least he used to be super-red.
I get it Billy, I get it. Poor Republicans. It's time for us to tell them to "come to the center." 2008 drove them far to the right, and then the money pushed them into Koch, Coors, Bradleys, Olin level way out right...Buckley was right Billy, "you let in the crazier elements and the party will be devastated."
I want the Pubbies to go know-nothing loony but for the rank and file long term Pubbie voter who remember Rockefeller, this has to be like a trip into an 18th century Bedlam Asylum.
There is room with the Democrats, Billy. WE are the big tent, not the rolling nuthouse on bus wheels called "the Republicans."