The Guardian Covers The GOP

I excerpt it because they do it better than I do it. I am going to stop writing about politics. I only started because I was appalled at the cavalier attitude with which the USA went to a misbegotten War. Now it looks like the NeoCon Republican Party has fallen apart. People talk about the party rallying behind John McCain-if he is the eventual nominee- but Republicans do not "rally" round the nominee if that nominee doesn't meet their "purity" definition. They never did. The GOP was never in my lifetime a "Team Spirit" group. Back in the day, we would rather have a Gotterdammering with Goldwater than give an inch, and it made us feel good. It still does give them, the present day Republicans, a good feeling. All that nonsense about becoming a majority party- what drivel! The GOP is a party of rich, cranky types who represent the various elites. The Rove inspired attempt to get the religious right was doomed to failure for the very reasons we see: Mike Huckabee. Mr. Huckabee is about as welcome to the Republican Power structure as a can-can dancer on City Hall steps at high noon. They never meant that the religious types should be in the place of Power. Never. Anyway, here is The Guardian on the most recent debates, or Debate XXII: "...the Republican debates have the air of cocktail parties whose guests have been selected by random telephone dialling. " and for the Democrats: "Race is an issue in subtler, nastier ways. Clinton operatives have stressed Obama's middle name, Hussein, with the clear implication that Barack might have something unconfessed in common with Saddam."