re: #305 Blind Frog Belly White

It seems to me that the biggest problem of communication right now is that an entire political party is being held captive by crazy people. The rapid and radical movement to the extreme right, demanded by the crazy people, is leading everything in an absolutist, binary direction. The only hope I see is in the continued quest for ideological purity by the Right, so that eventually the core will be small enough that the Republican Party can escape and reestablish itself as sane. But this might not be possible.

The Republican Party needs a movement like what the Dems had in the 80’s to modernize and yes moderate the party as well. But it seems to me the total opposite is happening still. Maybe if the rank and file force a Trump or Carson nomination and they lose by big amount, we can finally put this “If only we had a true conservative nonsense” aside but I suspect even if one of those two were nominated and that did happen, there would still be excuses. Electoral fraud, the Clinton machine, Trump/Carson not being sufficiently conservative and if you think I’m joking about that, think again, I saw conservatives here in Va try to claim that about why Cuccinnelli lost to McAuliffe.