I don’t exactly feel sorry for Republicans, but I wonder how they will ever shed their two biggest anchors. They have become beholden to both the social agenda of the religious right and the silly rhetoric of the Tea Party. Catering to these two inflexible and nasty groups of close-minded people is why they lost so big in this last election. In order to go forward Republicans are going to have to find a way to minimize the impacts of the Tea Party and religious right or abandon them both completely. The funny thing is that not so long ago these two groups had very little if any power in a party I once considered myself to be a part of.
It’s really interesting to see the reaction of these groups to losing this last election so badly. I hear them howling how they will never support a moderate candidate like Mitt Romney again. Certainly, they claim, the reason they lost is that they “settled” on someone again who wasn’t nearly radical enough.
They’re already searching for a candidate who will make Ron Santorum look like Ted Kennedy. I just know I’m going to enjoy the meltdown that is sure to be coming in the next election. Can anybody say Michelle Bachmann in 2016?
