Repost from the nirther thread with an addendum.

Healthcare does actually need a lot of work in this country. OF course Obama’s plan is terrible.

It is, really bad.

But what do the Republicans have to counter with in terms of ideas of their own? Not sound bites, but actual worked out plans.

So let’s be really clear about what this means.

Obama has a lot of policies and ideas that will be bad for this country and our allies.

Someone should have well wrought logical alternatives to present and argue for. The natural people to do this would be the GOP.

However, in the absence of any actual plans or ideas of their own - other than whining a lot and shouting soundbites - we see open acts of desperation.

We see them pandering to the Creationists more than ever - why because to a creationist, so long as you tag the anti Darwin line, you don’t actually have to have any policies of your own.

We see them pandering to the Nirthers. Why here is another crap flinging group that you don’t need to say anything constructive to. I mean the revolution sounds grand don’t it? Who cares if we have no plans for after…

We see them fuming all over Sotomayor and trying their damned level best to make this into a racially charged bit of scare tactics… Ohhh BOOGA BOOGA, the big bad Latina woman is coming to take your jobs and livelyhoods by making it impossible for white people to compete with affirmative action… BOOOGA BOOGA BE SCARED white Boys be scared…

Uh… Huh… so ok, you have fired a broadside “for the honor of the fleet” in her case… Do you have anything CONSTRUCTIVE to say? Ohhh, no you don’t that would mean actually having ideas that go beyond slinging mud…

We see them pandering to the folksie folks. Why, because so long as you are a cute soccer mom, you don’t need to actually know anything or have any real policies of your own. Hey, she can even run out on her elected office, true believers don’t care about things like actually doing the job you were elected to do… Sorry guys, Palin is forever on my shit list for cutting and running, even if you love her, can you agree that this shows a certain lack of sense of duty?

And who really is running the GOP these days?

What we see all over is a complete paucity of ideas. What we see is desperation. This is just great because, you know, unless someone has some actual ideas that are workable, to counter Obama with, you got bubkas.

And this is a pity. It really is. Because Obama does need to be countered on lots of things. Only the GOP, through only knowing how to cry wolf, and trip over its own feet, has made it so Obama’s real wolves won’t be noticed if someone calls a warning.

Great show losers. You deserved to be tossed out of office. After your party splits inot an isolationist party and a religious party, you will be gladly replaced by something new and more sensible - after the Lefties have run this nation into the ground.