"...the loony right is a clear and present danger"

And yer point is...? Robert Reich

As Santorum and Romney Battle for the Loony Right, the Rest of Us Should Not Gloat

Sorry, Bobby, we've had it coming since 2001, maybe since 1980, we're enjoying the shit out of it, and we're going to gloat until gloating is filled.

My father was a Republican for the first 78 years of his life. For the last twenty, he’s been a Democrat (he just celebrated his 98th.) What happened? “They lost me,” he says.
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A party of birthers, creationists, theocrats, climate-change deniers, nativists, gay-bashers, anti-abortionists, media paranoids, anti-intellectuals, and out-of-touch country clubbers cannot govern America.

Oh sure they can. They can govern it right into the ground. They sure want to. This country has many riches they haven't stolen yet.

The GOP’s drift toward loopyness started in 1993 when Bill Clinton became the first Democrat in the White House in a dozen years – and promptly allowed gays in the military, pushed through the Brady handgun act, had the audacity to staff his administration with strong women and African-Americans, and gave Hillary the task of crafting a national health bill. Bill and Hillary were secular boomers with Ivy League credentials who thought government had a positive role to play in peoples’ lives.

This was enough to stir right-wing evangelicals in the South, social conservatives in the Midwest and on the Great Plains, and stop-at-nothing extremists in Washington and the media who hounded Bill Clinton for eight years, then stole the 2000 election from Al Gore, and Swift-boated John Kerry in 2004.

They were not pleased to have a Democrat back in the White House in 2008, let alone a black one. They rose up in the 2010 election cycle as “tea partiers” and have by now pushed the GOP further right than it has been in more than eighty years. Even formerly sensible senators like Olympia Snowe, Orrin Hatch, and Dick Lugar are moving to the extreme right in order to keep their seats.

At this rate the GOP will end up on the dust heap of history. [...]

I live for the day.

Note to Bobby: Yo, dude, seeing as how you're a perfesser at UC Berzerkeley and a lot closer to the problem than I am, hows about going over to the law school and beatin' the ever-lovin' crap outta John Yoo for us?