I think he will moderate after this November if he wins.
Hurrah for intervention in Darfur and the DRC!
Doubt that. If Hayworth is elected in the primary he will lose massively in the general election and the Tea Party fanatics will be discredited.
You don’t know how much I wish I could believe that. Unfortunately, unless the next crop of candidates is stronger than the last one was, I think she has a chance based on being more lively than anyone who ran in 2008.
Mitt Romney’s favorite book is Battlefield Earth. That scares me as much as anything Palin’s ever said.
Get thee behind me, thetan!
I mean, you’re totally making that up, right?
From the You Can’t Make This Stuff Up Dept. :
It was a calculated move to appeal to the crucial ‘people who think Mormonism is weird but Scientology is friggin’ awesome!’ demographic.
I’m waiting for Tom Cruise to say Ender’s Game is his favourite book.
Finally, a voice of sanity in the Republican nuthouse:
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/01/mchenry-census/
Countdown on when he will be forced to apologize for these heretic remarks…
According to Professor DeLong, today’s Republican party is “bespelled by three curses”:
[quote=Brad DeLong]
[ul] [li] The curse of Ronald Reagan: it believes that over the long haul somehow America can tax like Calvin Coolidge and spend like Lyndon Johnson and everything will come out fine because it is morning in America.[/li] [li] The curse of Richard Nixon: it believes that the purpose of politics is to win high-paid jobs with no heavy lifting involved and to humiliate your political adversaries, rather than to make a better country and a better world, and so anything goes.[/li] [li] The curse of Barry Goldwater: it believes that the big threat to liberty comes from government attempts to enhance equality of opportunity, and so the Republican Party must abandon its historic commitment to equality of opportunity. [/ul] [/li][/quote]
So even Republicans who are sane in private, feel obliged to pander to the crazy when out in public. But occasionally the mask drops, and is even caught on tape. At a recent Cato forum, Grover Norquist asked Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN) about whether the Iraq War was a mistake. Two out of three thought it was, and furthermore thought that “Everybody” agrees on that. Duncan refused to say, but implied consent: he had voted against the authorization of military force and noted that when he had a primary challenge based on his Iraq vote in his conservative military district, his opponent got about 12%.
So yes there is sanity in the Republican Party, but it is kept under wraps: by no means is it permissible for the Republican leadership to show signs of sobriety and careful analysis in a high profile forum. That might mess with their talking points.
Far be it from me to make a call on (in)sanity, but I came across this article about Tom Coburn this morning.
He also defends Nancy Pelosi as a “nice person”. I admit, I didn’t see that one coming, and good for him.
Although at the same time, adding a teaspoon of wine to a barrel of sewage…
Sometimes breaking free when it can chew its way through the leather straps…