Radical conservatives are still having an interesting time of it, though these days they are being mutilated by fellow "conservatives." The well-fed Right now cultivates ignorance as a political strategy and humiliates itself when its brightest sons seek sanctuary in the solitude of personal honor.
The truth few wish to utter is that the GOP has abandoned many conservatives, who mostly nurse their angst in private. Those chickens we keep hearing about have indeed come home to roost. Years of pandering to the extreme wing -- the "kooks" the senior Buckley tried to separate from the right -- have created a party no longer attentive to its principles.
So today Buckley's worst fears have be realized. The Republican Party has been taken over by the "kooks." Their crazy chickens will come home to roost on Nov. 4th -- but it won't end there. Because, as the German people discovered 70-years ago, kooks are never more determined, or more dangerous, than when they feel cornered.
You need no further proof than to watch and listen to the video of Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.
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