Great article steven. And I definitely agree for the GOP to become a viable party in the future, it needs to get slaughtered in the fall. Ideally, it should become more like the libertarian party. In reality, I think it will become more like the old guard Republican party. Regardless, it needs more than gay marriage, pro-life, and attack or threaten any country we don't like as platforms to run on.
But what really needs to quit is all the boogeyman politics. Liberals do it occasionally with things like global warming, but the GOP right now and ever since 9/11 has been the biggest bunch of fearmongerers in existence. And entities like Fox News don't help the situation at all.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
