The GOP clown car, alas, has become a motorcade.

[kpete]

These are the people who, if it becomes absolutely necessary, are going to lead the Republican party back from the brink and back to “serious and forward-thinking” moderation? Does Heilemann have the faintest clue how absolutely rabid the Republican base is going to get if the Kenyan Muslim Usurper gets re-elected at all, much less decisively? (I suspect he does, because he’s a good reporter.) It is going to be four completely batshit years of internet conspiracy theories, fantastical chain e-mails, talk-radio hydrophobia, and bloody-fanged abandoned wrath until hell won’t have it any more. Anyone who wants to run in 2016 is going to have to spend a lot of time being the respectable face of all of that — or, at the very least, doing things to placate the madmen that nobody with any self-respect should want to do. The clown car, alas, has become a motorcade.

the rest:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_GOP_Looks_Into_The_Abyss?src=rss

[Bozita]

1. Best title line of the day!

[renate]

2. great title and great article, too!

The comments (as of right now, anyway) are good as well.

[wandy]

3. Oh yes, if Obama wins their will be much howling, thrashing and shaking of fists.....

Now think about what will happen if Obama doesen't win.

[Paka]

4. Too Scary!!

I'd rather not think about that possibility. Better to work full tilt to make sure it doesn't happen.

[Snarkoleptic]

5. “serious and forward-thinking”?!? WTF

I'm in my mid-40's and cannot recall a time when the regressive republiclowns were “serious and forward-thinking”.
The rest of my family are republiclowns.
I became politically aware in high school when raygun was President and I immediately recognized them as crackpots, cranks and frauds.

[mwb970]

9. I wonder why some of us immediately recognize psycho talk

whereas others, the ones who become conservatives, never DO recognize it. Is there an "insight gene" that they are missing? Could those enlarged amygdalas be crowding out more sophisticated regions of their brains?

I could see right through Reagan too but people where I worked were in love with him.

[zeemike]

6. The far right is preparing by stocking up on ammo.

and buying some new guns.
And as long as they are being fed all the crap they get from Fox and friends they will eventually us them.

I can envision the right wing stealing the election openly and obviously and using these gun nuts as brown shirts to enforce and stop any "vote counting"
That may seem far fetched but some of these people really are that nuts.

[hifiguy]

7. Charlie Pierce is one of my daily must-reads

Viciously funny and he always hits the bull's eye dead center.

[Major Hogwash]

8. Excellent article. The rightwing will never accept defeat with grace and dignity.

They remind me of that one movie with Gene Wilder when he played Dr Frankenstein with Marty Feldman as Igor.