Tea Party Continues to Feast on the GOP
I had one hell of a good time watching the political coverage of the Republican primaries last night. I was mostly impressed by how far right and how flat-out crazy the Tea Party is willing to go in this little game of chicken they're running on the American people.
As you know, we've had a whole lineup of fruitcakes emerge since Sarah Palin was given the veep nod by McCain in 2008, and each new person creates a nostalgia for the relative sanity of the one that came before. After Palin we got Sharon Angle in Nevada (who wants to get rid of Social Security), then Dan Maes in Colorado (who thinks that a bike-sharing program in Denver will lead to UN death camps), then Joe Miller in Alaska (a global warming denier who wants to, you guessed it, scrap the Department of Education), and now Christine O'Donnell in Delaware.
Where does one begin with this latest addition to the right-wing nut job gallery of villains? Well, for starters, and most famously, she thinks masturbation is as bad as adultery. She's so inept apparently that the Delaware Republicans don't think she is "fit to hold any elected office in the state" including dog catcher. Within 30 minutes of her upset victory in the primary, media outlets were reporting that the National Republican machine was going to "refudiate" her by not putting any money toward her general election campaign.
Given all this, I seriously doubt that the GOP will win back the Senate. Tea Party candidates might be able to fool enough people in a congressional district, but in a state-wide election, too many moderates prevail, and moderates don't appreciate crazy people. There are only a handful of states in the Union, like Utah and Oklahoma, that can elect flat-earth crazies like Inhofe and Coburn.
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