Good find damrika.
It turns out winning the last presidential election was about the worst thing that could have happened to the GOP. Bush (and his puppeteer Karl Rove) have single-handedly destroyed the Republican Party when they thought they would usher in a new era of conservatism. And the Republicans who were along for the ride in Congress, right or wrong, have already suffered for it, and will continue to suffer for it.
At least for the GOP this defeat should be pretty humbling. Who knows, in four years they may even have something relevant to add to the political discussion. Whatever happens, the GOP is going to go through some big changes after this election. The GOP of yesterday will be gone (which is probably a good thing, even for the GOP). We'll see what the GOP of the future will be.
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
