Assume for a brief second that lifelong Republican Chris Currey is correct when he says the GOP has entered the "era of craziness." It's a stretch of the imagination but assume for the sake of conversation he knows what he's talking about. Curry writes:
Recently, since the election of Barack Obama, common sense has left the Republican Party completely. We are in the era of craziness. As David Frum has written, a deal was there to be made over the healthcare bill. Instead, this ideological purity blinded the GOP. As LBJ said it, instead of being inside the tent pissing out, we choose to be outside the tent, pissing against the wind. And we got splashed by our own nonsense. Why did we do that? Well, when a political party shrinks its electoral based to below 30% and is composed by one demographic group, all that is left are a bunch of zealots...How did we go from William F. Buckley to Glenn Beck? How did we go from Eisenhower and Nixon to Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann? I do not know. What I do know, however, is that these leaders remind of me of the leaders of the Whig Party. And if they continue on their nonsense, they will bring the collapse of the GOP.Assuming he's correct, why isn't similar rhetoric taking place from the rank and file GOP? What does this say about the neocans? Have they decided any motivation is better than none and accepted the tea bagger faction as the new way forward? I'm not sure I know the answers to any of those questions but one thing to deem from their rhetoric and "craziness" is that long gone are they days of a Republican Party building such hugely popular and successful national programs as the interstate system. Republicans today consider such programs as socialism-- and tyrannical if undertaken by someone who doesn't vote Republican. There's no way today's GOP could ever grasp a government program intended for the masses built entirely for the purpose of national utilization. There's just no way.
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