The Base Strikes Back (and it isn't pretty)

By Baxter

Okay, never mind the fact that the Grand Old Party is saddled with an outgoing President whose approval numbers are in the cellar, a presumptive nominee they don't much like, and the number of people saying that the country is "on the wrong track" polling at 80 percent.

Now, they've lost a Congressman with a 96 percent rating from the American Conservative Union — because his opponent in Tuesday's Republican primary accused him of not being conservative enough.

Granted, it's Utah. (So don't get all greedy and think the Democrats are going to win the seat. They're not.) But we're just amazed that a six-term House member could be ousted because he had the temerity to believe that the children of illegal immigrants shouldn't immediately be deported.

Tails standing straight up, we cats arch our backs and HISS at this scary, scary Republican Party.