Obviously, there are many
others who belong on that turd pile, particularly the pundits referenced
earlier, along with other influential hard-right bottom-feeding rabble-rousers
-- Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity -- who promulgate the
irritant rhetorical tone of the conservative movement but face no political consequences
when that rhetoric causes problems for the GOP. If it wants to survive, the party needs to
develop a smooth but swift self-departation
process for pundits like Limbaugh and company.
But mainly it's the Tea Party
which needs to be put in "time-out" as it was for the most part during the GOP
convention. Now that finger-pointing
time has arrived, it's the Tea Party and its irrational fiscal agenda, batty
cultural outlook, and militia-like view of government which bled so deeply into
both Romney's campaign strategy and political persona -- that needs to be held
in account.
The demographic clock's
ticking. It's crucial that the GOP establishment "gets" it since it's obvious
that the electorate has it figured out. On
election day Americans rejected 12 of
16 Tea Party candidates nationwide including Richard Mourdock (aka the "rape
guy ")
and Todd Akin (aka the "legitimate
rape guy") along with Florida's Alan West and Illinois' Joe Walsh, a
couple first-term incumbents who embody the sort of hard-right extremism that
drives mainstream Republicans straight into the "independent" column.
A
conservative dilemma?
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