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Commentary By Ron Beasley

If you are not reading Charles P. Pierce everyday you should be.  He is a great writer who is factual and snarky.  He makes you laugh even when the news is bad.  He is the writer I wish I was.  Today he points out how ridiculous it is that conservatives are upset that the Republican candidates are a pretty sorry lot.

Precisely how many times are we going to be treated to public expressions of mock horror from Important Conservatives that 40 years of allying themselves with nativist hooligans, anti-intellectual crackpots, Christomaniacs, and the sad detritus of American apartheid finally has produced a field of presidential candidates that these same Important Conservatives find less than adequate? Once again, the whole exercise requires both the writer and the reader to ignore the obvious consequences of four decades of political history and conclude that the Republican party has lost its mind only recently. And it requires both the writer and reader to convince themselves that out there, somewhere, is a superior candidate to the ones presently available, and to ignore the obvious conclusion that titans like Chris Christie, Mitch Daniels, Jeb Bush, and Paul Ryan chose not to run because they suspected they might get beaten like gongs, if not by President Obama, then by the wholly unacceptable Willard Romney.

Yes indeed, the Republican party we see today has it's origin with Lee Attwater forty years ago.  The "Southern Strategy" - capture the south from the Democratic Party.  This was as Charlie says was an attempt to capture the" nativist hooligans, anti-intellectual crackpots, Christomaniacs, and the sad detritus of American apartheid". It worked for years - pandering was enough, but the lunatics have taken over the asylum.  

Doug Matacoins is upset that ultra conservative Catholic Rick Santorum wants to outlaw birth control.  The  lunatics have taken over the asylum Doug and you let them in.