re: #41 garhighway

re: #24 allegro

I think you are both wrong. The GOP is, with its anti-science position, sucking up to two indispensable constituencies: the religious right and the energy industry. One provides them with foot soldiers and votes (and chooses to ignore the party’s economic policies) and the other with giant sacks of cash (and, via the Kochs and others, funds the Party’s intellectual leaders).

I suspect that the vast majority of the candidates surveyed know, in their heart of hearts, that the positions they are taking are nonsense. But they also know that if they take the opposite position that their careers are over. So they say what they have to say.

I would like to think that you are right. But when the Republicans start nominating people like Sharon Angle and Christine O’Donnell…. Let’s face it, these people actually believe what they say.