re: #466 Decatur Deb

FrumForum is asking an existential question: “Who Controls the GOP?”
Hah.

[Link: www.frumforum.com…]

Conclusion….

McCain’s ’08 candidacy offered some hope for a power shift inside the party that could have begun to improve matters. His failure left the GOP at the mercy of its darkest impulses. In its wake have come the Tea Party, the Birthers, and a whole sweeping movement away from reality-based politics.

The party will recover at some point because it must. People who value reason over passion, truth over fantasy, reality over propaganda, in other words – responsible adults – will at some point regain some influence. But in the meantime the country is paying a price. One day we will have to clean up the wreckage, but for now the damage continues to pile up.

Sadly, it’s not going to happen anytime soon. I don’t see much light at the end of the tunnel.