re: #373 bratwurst

This is the part of the equation that nobody to the right of Joe Lieberman likes to address. Had the GOP in his state (and uh…a few other states) not been hijacked by REAL NO FOOLING INSANE PEOPLE, Reid would be retired. Now he is an older man with four more years who will almost certainly continue as majority leader without a thing in the world to lose.

The same is true for the presidential election this year as well, of course. If the far right wing hadn’t gained so much clout in the party, their feckless presidential candidate wouldn’t have been forced to take so many unpopular positions. Romney’s behavior as governor of MA leads me to believe he doesn’t hate the working poor and doesn’t dream of repealing Roe V Wade, or sit up salivating over the chance to reinact DADT and vigorously defend/enforce DOMA. Unfortunately the lunatics in his party don’t want a moderate, and Romney doesn’t have the character to be himself—whatever that is.